At least seven persons, including a policeman and a government employee, were killed and several others were injured, as violence continued unabated across the port city on Tuesday. Police said a man was shot dead near Lee Market, while a youth was gunned down in the Orangi area. Four other people received bullet wounds in shootings in Isa Nagri in the wee hours of Tuesday. In other acts of violence, a private school’s owner, Syed Mukhtar Hussain, was shot dead by unidentified persons in sector 9 of Baldia Town.
The deceased was a worker of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). In another incident, some unidentified motorcyclists shot dead a PPP worker, Younas, on Abul Ispahani Road, besides injuring another passer by. In the Mangopir area, 15-year-old Tariq was shot dead by some unidentified miscreants, while a police official, Raj Muhammad, was shot dead on Maripur Road. In Gulistan-e-Jauhar, some unidentified persons killed the deputy director of a government department. The victim was identified as Abdullah. Police also recovered the body parts of a woman near Capri cinema at MA Jinnah Road. The body parts were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities. Doctors said a sharp-edged dagger was used in cutting the body into pieces.
