A policeman, a prayer leader and a member of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) were among the eight who fell victim to a fresh spree of targeted killing in Karachi on Saturday.
Unidentified assailants sprayed with bullets a police party that was returning after dispersing participants of a demonstration in Sohrab Goth.
Police said that some people were staging a protest against Malir SSP Rao Anwar over nomination of Sohrab Goth SHO and his brother in a suicide attack at Malir Halt on Thursday.
They said that a police party reached the spot and dispersed the protesters, but when they were returning, some unidentified attackers opened fire on them.
Police constable Rizwan Naik Muhammad was killed, whereas two policemen and a passerby were injured.
Separately, a prayer leader was killed in Ghagar Phatak in the Steel Town police precincts.
Police said that the victim was returning home after offering the maghrib prayer when two motorcyclists intercepted him and opened fire on him, killing him on the spot.
In another incident, a PPP member was killed and three of his friends injured near the Saifi Polytechnic College in North Nazimabad.
DSP Abdul Rasheed said that Shahid was with his friends when some unidentified men sprayed his four-wheeler with bullets, killing him on the spot and wounding the three friends with him.
OTHER KILLINGS: A scavenger was shot dead in Baldia Sector 4½. Police said that the victim was identified as Barkat Khan, 22.
They said that Khan was scavenging when an unidentified man put a bullet to his head and killed him instantly.
A 24-year-old man was gunned down in Korangi. Police said that the victim was identified as Shahid Afzal, a resident of Barelvi Colony in Shah Faisal Colony.
A rickshaw driver was killed in Korangi Sector 51-D. Landhi police said that the victim was standing at a bus stop when two motorcyclists killed him. They said that the victim was identified as Khurram Sardar Ali, 22.
A trader was killed in Orangi Town. Pirabad police said that the victim was on his way to purchase stock when he was sprayed with bullets.
They said that the victim was identified as Zar Gul, 45, a resident of Hazara Chowk in Sector 11-E of Orangi Town.
A taxi driver was shot dead at the Shahrah-e-Faisal. Airport police said that Khursheed was standing by his vehicle at a bus stop when unidentified men opened fire on him. They said that the victim suffered a bullet to the head and was killed instantly.
BODY FOUND: An alleged gangster’s body was recovered from the DC Office in North Nazimabad.
Pirabad police said that Imran Baloch, 28, was kidnapped from his residence in Sultanabad a day earlier.
They said Baloch was tortured and murdered, and then his body was dumped near the DC Office.
The law enforcers claim that the victim was a gangster associated with the Lyari gang war. They said Baloch was nominated in a number of cases at different police stations of the city.
