Unabated target killing continued to claim innocent lives as three more persons were gunned down in separate incidents of violence in the provincial metropolis here on Sunday. The Rangers during a raid recovered eight kidnapped men.
According to police, unknown armed men gunned down two persons in separate incidents of firing in Baldia Town locality of the city. The bodies were shifted to hospital where identity of the deceased was ascertained as Mohammad Shah and Usman. In Korangi No 4, armed motorcyclists opened fire at a man killing him on the spot and fled the scene. The body was shifted to hospital where identity of the deceased was yet to be confirmed. Police said the shooting incident could be outcome of personal enmity.
Meanwhile, Rangers after a pinpoint raid in restive gangsters’ stronghold on late Saturday night recovered at least eight abductees.
According to officials, when paramilitary troops barged into a suspected gangster den, namely Dubai House, in the limits of Lyari’s Chakiwara area, they discovered some eight men shackled to the walls of an alleged torture cell. They were unchained and pulled through by the lawmen.
On the flip side, families of the abductees said that the recovered men were junkies who they themselves had restrained this way to break their drug addiction.
The relatives also added that these hopheads had gone to the extent of selling the family belongings to get a narcotic high.
“We could find no other way but this to keep them off the streets and away from drugs,” they added.
The family members, most of them women, staged a demonstration against the operation in front of Rangers Headquarters demanding immediate release of the men recovered.
Two torture cells found in Lyari
KARACHI
NNI
Rangers on Sunday unearthed two torture cells in Karachi’s Lyari town and got eight detained people freed after a search operation in the area.
On a tip off, the officials said, heavy contingents of Rangers surrounded the Dubai Chowk area in Lyari, closing all entry and exit points of the locality as part of the search operation. The Rangers raided two tortures cells and got eight detainees freed who were kept there in fetters, recovering torturing equipments from the underground dungeons.
Meanwhile, police shifted 23 prisoners of banned outfits from Karachi’s central prison to Hyderabad in the wake of terror threat.
Violence continued in the city till late Saturday, with three more people gunned down in different areas of financial hub of the country.