Ten persons, including five activists of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jammat (ASWJ), were killed in different incidents of target killing in the port city on Monday, raising the figure up to 42 in October.
According to details, unidentified motorcyclists entered a shop, near mosque Sadiq-e-Akbar, and opened indiscriminate fire on the persons present there.
The shop owner Imran and three of his other friends – Umer Haq Nawaz, Abdul Shakor and Asad Ullah – died on the spot. All the deceased were activists of the Scout Colony unit of ASWJ. A spokesman of ASWJ told Pakistan Today that six unknown men on three motorcycles came and opened fire with pistols on their activists. “Abdul Shakor and Asad Ullah were real brothers,” he said. In a separate incident, unknown persons killed another activist of ASWJ, Abdul Hannan, in Kosar Niazi Colony. “Hannan was our activist of unit Kosar Niazi Colony,” the spokesman said.
The funeral prayers of Hannan were offered in Kosar Niazi Colony while funeral of other four activists will be offered on Tuesday (today). ASWJ spokesman said further that more than 23 activists had been killed in the first fifteen days of the current month alone and the government had failed to take any action against the terrorist so far.
“We will announce our next strategy very soon and a strong message will be delivered to the government,” he said.
Meanwhile, two persons were killed in garden area of the city. The bodies were shifted to the Civil Hospital while their identification could not be ascertained so far. Police recovered a bullet riddled dead body from Orangi Town and shifted it to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. The body could not be identified till the filing of this report. Another man, Akhter Farman, was killed in Quaidabad by unknown persons. The body was shifted to Jinnah Hospital while police declared it a result of personal enmity. A man, identified as Akram Baloch, was also killed in the jurisdiction of Chakiwara police station. Police declared the incident was linked with gang war in Lyari.
