Three killed in Karachi firing

KARACHI: Police said that unidentified armed men riding on a bike opened indiscriminate fire on a car at Shaheed-e-Millat Road near Bahdurabad Chowrangi.

As a result vice chairman of MQM-H Akhtar Hussain and Central Committee Member of MQM-H Karachi Abdul Karim and two others including a woman received bullet injuries. Akhtar Hussain and Abdul Karim died on their way to hospital.

The bodies and injured were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Center. Later, the injured woman, identified as Shams-un-Nihar, also succumbed to her injuries during treatment.

Two other injured were identified as Salman, 28 and Mohammad Shoaib, 25, both activists of MQM-H.  According to police sources the victims were returning after meeting with MQM-H chief Afaq Ahmad in Central Jail Karachi, when unidentified armed men targeted them on Shaheed-e-Millat Road.

MQM-H sources confirmed that the victims and injured belonged to their party. In a statement, they condemned the target killings and demanded the arrest of the killers.

Meanwhile, spokesman to Awami National Party (ANP) Sindh and Deputy Secretary information of Pakistan Peoples' Party Karachi Sohail Abidi also condemned the target killing. They demanded that the target killers of political activists should be brought before justice.