There was no word about their whereabouts till the filing of this report. Old city areas, including Shershah, Pak Colony and old Golimar, remained under the grip of violence for the third consecutive day where all commercial and social activities came to a standstill.
Six personnel of elite force were killed and 26 others injured following an armed clash between two groups at Chakra Goth in Korangi. A 40-year-old man was killed in a drive-by shooting at Gulshan Iqbal, Block-4, in Gulshan police limits. Police said the victim, who was identified as Sharif Gabol, was an active worker of PPP. They said the victim received three shots and succumbed to his injures on the spot.
The body was shifted to JPMC for autopsy. Two more persons namely Mobin Ahmed Ali and Azhar Baloch fell prey to the spate of targeted killings in PIB Colony police station limits. Police said both the victims were shifted to JPMC where they succumbed to their injuries. SHO Zulfiqar Bhangwar said that one the victims appeared to be Baloch while other was Urdu-speaking person. He said that both the persons had no political affiliation.
Four bullet-riddled bodies stuffed in the gunny bags were found at Bakra Piri area in the precincts of Pak colony police. Police said all the four victims tied in ropes, who appeared to be Urdu-speaking persons, were kidnapped before they were tortured and murdered. They said that one of them was identified as 24-year-old Rizwan alias Babu, a resident of Nazimabad area.
A strangled body of youth, who appeared to be in his late twenties, was found near Kharadar hospital in the limits of Baghdadi police station. Police said although the identity of the victim was yet to be ascertained while he appeared to be an Urdu-speaking person. A three-day-old body of unidentified man was recovered from Maripur road in Jackson police jurisdiction.
A 25-year-old Hosh Muhammad was gunned down at Gulshan Iqbal. Police said the victim, who was targeted at Block-5 of Gulshan Iqbal, appeared to be a Sindhi-speaking person. An activist of Sunni Tehrik, Bilal Qadri alias Sabir, was killed while his two brothers Kaleem and Ejaz sustained bullet wounds in an armed attack in sector 11-G in the limits of New Karachi Industrial Area police. Police said that unidentified armed riders sprayed Bilal with bullets when he was outside his house with his two brothers.
They said Bilal succumbed to his injures on his way to hospital. Anwar Ali, 28, and Sheharyar, 20, were killed in a drive-by shooting in Shireen Jinnah Colony in Jackson police limits. Thirty-three-year-old Rasool Buksh was shot dead in Orangi Town sector VIII near Qatar Hospital.
Meanwhile, the funeral prayers of Mohammad Irfan, Azhar and Azeemullah, who were kidnapped and killed on ethnic ground on Thursday, were offered after Friday prayers at Liaquatabad Daakhana. The funeral procession was attended by MQM leaders and workers. The inhabitants and the family members of the victims staged a protest demonstration over the killing of their loved ones after funeral prayers. The protesters also chanted slogans against the Peoples Amn Committee.
Amjad, son of Saeed, and Hashim, son of Asif were shot dead near Eidgah ground, Nazimabad in the precincts of Shamim Shaheed checkpost. Police said both victims, who were the residents of PIB Colony, were targeted while they were on their way to home on a bike.
The bodies were shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for legal formalities. Later, unidentified miscreants set three trucks, a passenger bus, two private cars and a bike on fire. They also ransacked an office of a nationalist party. The bodies and the injured were shifted to JPMC and CHK for legal formalities.
According to police, an armed clash between two groups at Chakra Goth Korangi, claimed two more lives Mohammad Hassan son of Ali Gul and unknown and injured six others namely Raees Khan, Rizwan, Saabir, Sikander, Nadeem Akhter, Kashif and Hassan Chandio.
The miscreants set three trucks, a passenger bus; two private cars and a bike on fire besides ransacking an office of a nationalist party. The bodies and injured were shifted to JPMC and CHK for legal formalities. Following the incident, heavy contingents of police and rangers were deployed in the areas.
Police sources said that armed men of one of the groups opened indiscriminate firing on police van over the suspicious of its rival group, which left six policemen killed and 23 others including DSP Quaidabad Badaruddin Shah, Khadim Hussain, Ali Akbar, Zulfiqar Shahid Muzafar Ali Mohammad Ashfaq, Mohammad Moosa, Abdul Jabbar and others injured.
After the incident, tension gripped in several parts of Korangi area. Police sources said the policemen on retaliation killed two attackers. However, the police officials later denied the same. Later, more police and Rangers personnel reached the spot and cordoned off the area. However, heavy gunshots remained continued between two ethnic groups till filing of this report.
Two activists of MQM were shot dead at Korangi no 5 F-1 area in the remits of Awami colony police station. Police said that unidentified armed riders sprayed five activists of MQM namely Islamuddin, Kamran alias Madhuri Shahid alias Chamman, Sohail and Arif with bullets. Resultantly Shahid Chaman and Islam died on the spot, while others sustained bullet wounds. The bodies and injured were shifted to JPMC for legal formalities.