* 30 people killed, including a dozen in single incident
* Four Baloch, one MQM-H activist also killed
* Zulfiqar Mirza says curfew may be imposed after 24 hours
By Faraz Khan
KARACHI: Thirty more people from various ethnicities, including one dozen in a single incident, were killed in Karachi on Tuesday, taking the death toll of the recent target killings to 73 after four consecutive days of violence.
The foremost incident occurred in the Shershah Kabaari Market, which resulted in shutter down in the city. Reports say at least 24 armed men entered the Kabaari Market and sprayed the traders and shopkeepers with bullets.
Witnesses said armed men, wearing camouflage caps that Lyari gangsters commonly wore, on motorcycles entered the market and started indiscriminate firing, and later fled the scene.
They claimed that the culprits also took at least seven traders with them. Civil Hospital Medico-Legal Officer Dr Qarar Abbasi told Daily Times eight people were brought dead, while two died during treatment. Abbasi Shaheed Hospital MLO Dr Saleem Siddiqui said two dead bodies and two injured were brought to the hospital. Seven people had been injured during the attack.
The witnesses said the assailants had come from the Lyari riverbed and went back without any difficulty although Rangers and police personnel had been deployed in the locality, but they too disappeared from the scene instead of taking action.
Later, seven more people were gunned down, while three were found dead. As per details, three bullet-riddled bodies, apparently Balochi, were found near Radio Pakistan in the Preedy police precincts; Abdul Khaliq and Jamal were found dead in an attack on a teashop in Gulistan-e-Johar; Muhammad Akram in Sharah-e-Noor Jahan; a dates-seller in the Nazimabad police precincts; two unidentified people in Pak Colony and Abdul Hassan Isphani Road; and a passenger coach driver was killed in Moosa Colony in the Gulberg police precincts.
Baloch, MQM-H: Before the Kabaari Market incident, five people, including four Baloch-speaking and an activist of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi were killed in the city. The body of Abdul Hameed Sarbazi, a ward in-charge of the Lyari gangsters-backed Peoples’ Amn Committee, was found from Haryana Colony. He had been killed after being kidnapped. Two more Baloch, Abid and his cousin Saleem were gunned down in the Aurangzaib Market, while another Baloch, Nawaz Zikri, was shot dead in the Abbasi Cloth Market.
Separately, a bullet-riddled and tortured body of MQM-H activist Obaidullah was found within the Landhi police limits. Three more peopled were gunned down late on Tuesday in separate incidents.
According to police sources, Asif Ali was shot near Dhobi Ghat and died in Civil Hospital. In another incident, a bullet-riddled body of Rashid Baloch was found from Gutter Baghicha, Pak Colony. In the third incident, a 35-year-old watchman’s body was found from Masjid Khairul Amal. The identity of the deceased could not be ascertained.
Curfew: Meanwhile, Sindh Home Minister Zulfiqar Mirza has indicated that a curfew might be imposed after 24 hours, followed by a search operation, if the current situation persisted in the city.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010\10\20\story_20-10-2010_pg1_1
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