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3 MQM activists among 10 killed in Karachi

At least 10 persons, including three activists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), were killed in separate incidents of violence in different areas of the city after Tuesday midnight. According to details, bullet riddled and tortured bodies of two persons were retrieved from Malir Cantonment. The bodies were shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where they were identified as Muhammad Azhar Khan and Kamran Ali. The deceased were MQM activists and hailed from Ehsanabad area in Scheme-33 of Sohrab Goth. The Sohrab Goth area remained tense after the discovery of the bodies, and the party leadership also protested against the double murder. They demanded that the authorities immediately arrest the murderers. In another incident, armed motorcyclists gunned down senior MQM worker Anwer Alam alias Babu near the party’s sector office in Ferozabad area. Following the murder, armed miscreants resorted to aerial firing and forced the traders to close their businesses. Syed Mehdi Raza, aged between 40 and 45, was shot to death in Nazimabad No-2 near the Jamia Imamia Imambargah. Tension gripped the area after Raza’s murder and unidentified men resorted to aerial firing and created panic among the locals. Separately, Dawood College of Engineering and Technology Registrar Ghulam Shabbir Bhaghio and his 25-year-old son Farooq were shot at near Time Medicos on the National Stadium Road in the New Town police limits. The victims lived in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal area. Both father and son are struggling for their lives and remain in critical condition. Two more bodies were found near the Navy Boundry Wall of Ilyas Goth in Ibrahim Haidri area. The bodies were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC). A tortured and bullet riddled body was found from the Malir City area near Bakra Piri. Police said that the criminals kidnapped the victim from an unknown location and dumped his body in the area after brutally torturing the man and killing him.

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