KARACHI: Nine people, including a man and his teenaged son, were gunned down in the city in acts of violence on Sunday, police said.
They said that Anjum Ali Zaidi, 47, and his son Asif Ali Zaidi, 18, were targeted by assailants on a motorbike in a playground near Mehtab Chowk in Rais Amrohvi Colony within the remit of the Iqbal Market police station.
“The victims had a merry-go-round for children to ride on in the playground,” said Orangi Town SSP Ahmed Jamalur Rehman.
“Three assailants riding a motorcycle emerged there, fired multiple shots at them ad rode away.”
The wounded were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where they were pronounced dead on arrival.
DIG-West Javed Odho said that it appeared to be an incident of sectarian killing.
Tension gripped the Orangi Town area following the killings.
After the medico-legal formalities, the bodies were moved to the Imambargah Babul Ilm in North Nazimabad, where a large number of people attended their funeral prayers.
According to SSP Rehman, a brother of the elder Zaidi was killed in somewhat similar circumstances in 1995.
It was not the first incident in which members of one family were targeted on sectarian grounds.
On Jan 7, Maulana Asghar Illyas and his daughter Zainab were shot dead in the Federal B Area. On Sept 28, 2012, Nazar Abbas Zaidi was killed and his daughter Mehzar Zehra was wounded in an armed attack on Shaheed-i-Millat Road.
The same day, Ghulam Qadir and his son Fazal Abbas were gunned down in Baldia Town.
On Sep 26, Mohammad Raza and his two sons Kumail Raza and Ali Raza were gunned down in Lyari.
On Sept 25, four brothers — Abdul Farid, Abdul Wahid, Abdul Muqeet and Abdul Moeed — were gunned in North Karachi.
Two brothers were gunned down in their room in an apartment building in the Garden area on Sunday morning.
Police said the brothers — Gul Faraz and Aqeel — were watchmen of an apartment building in Shoe Market and lived in a room in the same building.
They said the two were asleep when unknown persons fired at them and fled. Hearing the gunshots, residents of the building reached there and shifted them to the Civil Hospital Karachi, where they were pronounced dead on arrival.
The police said that it appeared that the motive for the killing was some personal enmity, as both men originally hailed from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
A restaurant worker was shot dead and two others were wounded when armed men, said to be customers at an eatery, opened fire in the Defence Phase II on Sunday evening, police said.
They said that unknown customers had an altercation with one of the waiters over the bill amount. During the altercation, one of them fired indiscriminately and the bullets hit the waiter and two others who came for the dinner. The armed men escaped.
The wounded waiter was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where he died during treatment. He was identified as Mohammad Ramzan.
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