On Wednesday morning, unknown men fired at least two rockets in Karachi’s Malir area from unidentified directions. However, no loss of life was reported.
An official at the Saudabad police station confirmed that one rocket hit Mustafa Masjid in the Kalapul area, damaging its wall.
The Mustafa Masjid also runs a madrassah but students were not present at the time of the incident, he said, adding that officials of bomb disposal squad reached the spot to examine the rocket.
The second rocket landed on an empty plot in the Fateh Ali Bagh Area and caused no damage to life or property, said an official of the Malir City Police station.
Moreover, unknown assailants gunned down at least two people in Malir’s Tanki and Hussainabad areas.
In Federal B Area, a trailer truck came under an armed attack that left two men on the heavy vehicle dead and two others wounded.
An official at the Gulberg police station said four men on two motorbikes fired at trailer truck near Ayesha Manzil when it was heading towards Sohrab Goth.
Gunmen left three more people dead and several wounded when they attacked a roadside restaurant near the Metro Cinema in Orangi Town. The Pirabad police official said one of the dead was identified as 36-year-old Nazuk Hussain.
Moreover, two men were killed when unknown gunmen opened fire at a shop in North Karachi neighbourhood’s Sector 11-C-2. A seven-year-old girl was also killed in the firing.
Furthermore, the body recovered from Karachi’s Garden area was determined to be that of a political activist.
Sporadic incidents of targeted killings continued in Karachi on Tuesday, claiming the life of 13 people, including a woman and a minor girl, and injuring another 23.As per details, at least three people were killed and 15 others, including Rangers personnel, injured in firing incidents in Orangi.
Sources said unidentified motorcyclists opened fire at Shaheen Qabayl Hotel near Metro Cinema killing at least five people and injuring 13 others.TPO Khurram Waris said Khushal, Bilal and an unidentified man were killed in the firing incident, while Ismail, Habib, Sajid, Zain, Allah Wasaya, Abdul Rasheed, Ismail, Shahi Akbar, Saleem, Mujahid, Zahid, Kamran, Naziq Hussain, Jamal and Naseeb Gul were among the injured.
Another man, Jamal, was killed in area of Katti Pahari area of Orangi. A man was gunned down near Landhi Hospital Chowrangi, while a woman was killed and another two injured in an armed attack on a house in LandhiIn a separate incident, three people, including a minor girl, were killed and two others received bullet injuries in Sector 11-C, North Karachi.
An MQM activist, Furqan, who was injured in a firing incident on Monday, succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday at Patel Hospital. Also, a man and a woman were injured while resisting robbery on board a minibus near Qasba Colony.
Unidentified armed men fired multiple shots at Iqbal near Nishan-e-Hyder area, injuring him badly. A Rangers official, Imran of Sachal Wing-33, was injured near Banaras Flyover when he got hit by a stray bullet.
