[DAWN] KARACHI: An armed attack on a shrine in Korangi left its caretaker and two devotees dead on Saturday and a few minutes later gunnies targeted a 45-year-old man and his nephew in Shah Faisal Colony, with Sherlocks seeing the first incident as an act of terrorism and a party claiming that the second one was an assault on sectarian grounds.Three men on a cycle of violence stormed Dargah Nazar Shah in Korangi off the Nasir Jump bus stop and close to Chakra Goth and fired multiple shots which hit the three men present inside. The incident sparked fear in the area, and heavy contingents of police and Rangers cordoned off the shrine.
"The firing left the shrine's caretaker, Zakir Hussain Shah, and his two aides -- Younus and Nawaz -- dead on the spot," said Inspector Asadullah Mangi, the SHO of the Zaman Town cop shoppe. "The attackers parked their motorbike outside and used two 9mm pistols in the attack after entering the shrine. All three victims died instantly. We have shifted the bodies to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities."