Violence returned to the financial capital on the 65th Independence Day of the country, as 11 people were killed and eight injured in separate incidents. The toll included the four bodies found from a house in one of the industrial areas.
An activist of the defunct Sipah-e-Sahaba was killed while two of his friends were injured as they were targeted in one of the city’s volatile neighbourhoods, Sector 4-F of Orangi Town. The Sipah-e-Sahaba member was identified as Shahid. His friends, Wajahat and Rashid, are stated to be in critical condition. A worker of the Karachi Electric Supply Company was shot dead by members of a religious outfit in New Karachi following an altercation over an illegal connection.
The locals claimed that the victim, Qamar Alam, was trying to install an illegal connection when members of the outfit killed him on the spot. A former member of the Sunni Tehreek, Asif, was gunned down in the Garden area by armed men riding a motorcycle. Asif was 30 years old and had only recently left the party.
Two unidentified bodies were recovered from the Chakiwara and Baldia Town areas. Four men were injured in Quaidabad, two on MA Jinnah Road and two in the Lines Area in different incidents of gunfire. In, what is being called the first case ever of its kind, a eunuch and a man who got married a few days ago, were shot dead in the name of honour. The assailants, who could not be identified, are suspected to be related to one of the victims or were members of their caste.
The eunuch, identified as Wajahat, and the man Kamran were shot dead outside their house in Data Nagri, a locality of Orangi Town. The couple had fallen in love and were living together in the same house, neighbours of the slain couple told the police. It is still not clear whether the victims were targeted while they were waiting for someone or they had been planning to go somewhere.
Four bodies, all members of the same family, were discovered from a house in the Sector 5-F of the New Karachi Industrial Area. The victims had their throats slit and were found in a pool of blood in different parts of the house, indicating some of them were chased before being slaughtered. Police said they also suspect the involvement of more than one killer. The victims were identified as Rajab Ali, Amna, Hina and Jamshed.
This was Jamsheda’s second marriage, while Ali was her father-in-law.
