2 MQM men among 13 dead in Karachi

KARACHI - Two political activists were among thirteen gunned down in separate incidents of targeted killing and violence here on Sunday.
As per details, a body of an MQM activist carrying torture marks was found from Kakri Ground in the limits of Kharadar police station. The victim was identified as Feroz, son of Iqbal. Police said the man had recently shifted to Agra Tajj Colony from North Karachi and was affiliated with MQM Unit 136, North Karachi Sector. Unidentified men kidnapped him on Saturday and later threw his body at the place on Sunday. Police found his body in a sack on the information by the residents. The deceased was tortured and his hands and legs were broke before being shot dead.
Another body of an MQM man was found from the Ghans Mandi in Old City area. The body was taken to the Civil Hospital for legal formalities and later handed over to the family. The deceased was identified as Shahid Bali, 36, son of Bilal. The victim was said to be associated with the MQM Baldia Town Unit 114. Sources said that this man was too was tortured before he was shot dead. In Lyari, three young men were found dead in Kalakot police precincts. Police said that they found the bodies of the three young men aged between 25 to 30 years in sacks from Old Haji Camp on the information from the locals. SHO Babar Hameed said that two of them wore trousers and shirts and one wore Shalwar Qameez.
Victims were brutally tortured before they were killed.
Separately, a gangster killed by firing an elderly man and injured over half a dozen people before shooting himself to death at Lyari’s Rangiwara within the limits of Chakiwara police station. Police said that the 35-year-old killer Chand Zaib was affiliated with a group of Lyari’s gangsters and was also a drug addict. Affected by drugs, he came out of his house and opened indiscriminate firing with a Kalashnikov rifle, injuring at least eight people, the police said. Police officials quoting the witnesses said that the murderer later shot himself and died at the spot.