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KARACHI: An 11-year-old boy, wearing ‘monster mask’, was shot dead by a security guard in Ferozabad area on Sunday night, according to police.
They said that Ali Hasan was shot at and wounded by the guard on Amir Khusro Road. He suffered critical injuries and was taken to Jinnah Post-Graduate Medical Centre where doctors declared him dead. The boy received bullet wounds in his head, said Dr Seemin Jamali, head of the emergency department.
The suspect has been taken into custody.
SSP Investigation Zulfiqar Mahar told Dawn that the initial investigation had suggested that the guard was panicked and shot and killed the boy.
Published in Dawn, March 21st, 2016
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Mar 21, 2016 12:07pm
Wow didn't he see how tall the boy was he shooting u can tell the size of the guy or boy even if u can't see the face u got to be very brave in this kind of job u doing in Pakistan u can't just shoot people
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Mar 21, 2016 12:19pm
What if some terrorist comes wearing a veil? Reality is that we have no solution to such suicide attacks.
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Mar 21, 2016 12:50pm
I don't blame the guard. The blame lies on our society as a whole in creating this tense atmosphere.
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Mar 21, 2016 12:59pm
Unfortunate incident but the reality is that most suicide bombers are young boys in their early teens. So the guard has taken a preemptive measure keeping in view the overall security situation of the country.
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Mar 21, 2016 01:00pm
Pathetic training of security guards.
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Mar 21, 2016 01:01pm
@mano very right....but it has nothing to do with being thought of him as terrorist.
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Mar 21, 2016 01:17pm
Superstitious believes
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Mar 21, 2016 01:23pm
The security firm should be immediately blacklisted and criminally prosecuted for providing weapons to untrained monsters. There should be compulsory training verifications by government agencies of all private guards . This monster should be given exemplary punishment . The probability of a common man getting killed by untrained guards and security personal is increasing everyday as compared to getting killed by some terrorist.
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Mar 21, 2016 01:28pm
@Ahmed pathetic training of the child also!
nothing wrong with this
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Mar 21, 2016 01:38pm
@mano specially the Karachi silent majority is to blame who did nothing to undo MQM's forced reign.
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Mar 21, 2016 01:58pm
the guard was right to respond..i am sorry for the unfortunate boy..but in current situation we have to empower our guards so that they can protect us..
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Mar 21, 2016 02:01pm
Killed an innocent boy just wearing a mask while leaving all the real monsters (without a mask) free ! how lame.
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Mar 21, 2016 02:13pm
What's a monster mask???
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Mar 21, 2016 02:28pm
How many real suicide bombers were wearing masks and attacked a lonely security guard? Very rightly said by Ali Jee that the people doing guard or other similar duties should be courageous enough to sense the actual situation.
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Mar 21, 2016 02:42pm
Security guards of normal locations like this are never heard of even firing a bullet in a threatening situation, here the guard seems disturbed by a boy and knowing he can inflict damage to unarmed, Guard pulled the trigger.
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Mar 21, 2016 02:44pm
Very sad and tragic incidences like this will keep on happening unless we snatch firearms from EVERYONE except the police and military. These firearms are the biggest curse of our society and should be very strictly limited.
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Mar 21, 2016 02:56pm
Very very sad...the poor boy and the family...Now the guard will be at the mercy of the police.
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Mar 21, 2016 02:57pm
But where was the guard posting ? At a bank branch ? A shop ? house ?Where ? And what caused the guard to panic ? Simple sight of the boy ?or did the boy approach the guard ?
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Mar 21, 2016 03:11pm
Not much info given. What exactly happened. Did the guard warn him. Why didn't the guard shot him on the leg, why head.
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Mar 21, 2016 04:05pm
See the confidence of security guard he failed to differentiate between monster and kid.
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Mar 21, 2016 04:26pm
Guarding someone else's life while putting one's own at stake is a tense and risky job. Nobody would voluntarily like to do it. The loss of boy's life is saddening but I would not blame the guard who is supposed to respond to terror and scare instantaneously. My sympathies are with boy's family but is there a fault on the part of the guard is open to question.
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Mar 21, 2016 04:30pm
Sad.. Just sad for all of us, guard is not responsible but the security company who hire totally un educated guards on very low salary.
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Mar 21, 2016 04:33pm
A society where fear is treated as commodity, this incident is pretty much justified. Guard is not to blame.
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Mar 21, 2016 04:53pm
Very sad
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Mar 21, 2016 05:04pm
I have never heard of a terrorist wearing a monster mask .children do often wear it.it seems the guard was a coward who panicked at the sight of the mask.what a shame , an innocent boy lost his life for his playful behavior. Terrorism in the country can not be justification for such a cowardly act.
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Mar 21, 2016 05:19pm
Had seen interview of the guard on some channel, as per guard he had no prior training.
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Mar 21, 2016 05:19pm
This is so tragic. don't have any other words to describe my thoughts. My heart and prayers goes out the family.
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Mar 21, 2016 05:32pm
Most security guards don't know how to operate fire arms if you get them panicked fatal casualty is certain.
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Mar 21, 2016 06:16pm
Most unfortunate incident, may he rest in peace. Parents should warn kids from doing such things, because guards can have very edgy nerves in the prevailing law and order situation in the country.
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Mar 21, 2016 06:36pm
The security is damn scared, they don't know what to do.
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Mar 21, 2016 06:40pm
@adnan aren't kids supposed to wear mask?
was the kid holding a gun or wearing suicide jacket?
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Mar 21, 2016 07:23pm
A very unfortunate incident. Given the tensions within our society, such tragedies will happen, unfortunately.
Sympathies to the family of the deceased.
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Mar 21, 2016 08:40pm
The cowards always get into panic and kill innocent people. Such people should not be employed on the security duties.
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Mar 21, 2016 10:06pm
This shows that not every other person can become a guard or at least wield a gun. Did he get training to be a guard or at least some sort of training ?
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Mar 21, 2016 10:11pm
very tragic incident. sadly many civilians have lost lives in such instances.
in real terror attacks the terrorists don't give chance to the guards.
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Mar 21, 2016 11:23pm
@Baaligh Good Point!
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Mar 21, 2016 11:49pm
When you have armed security guards protecting your mosques, markets, schools, shops and almost everything coupled with the sense of insecurity, then these kind of accidents will occur.
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Mar 21, 2016 11:55pm
In an era when even kids are being hired for terrorism, the guard may have went out of reason. Sad incident. RIP little one.
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Mar 22, 2016 12:13am
Judiciary is reqiested to very carefully do the trial. Do not punish the guard if he didn't do it with some bad intensions but punish is very badly if he is found guilty.
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Mar 22, 2016 03:00am
@Dr. Farooq Khan They don't wear mask, they wear suicide jackets and do you really think those guards can stop a terrorist?
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Mar 22, 2016 03:05am
Greatest smpathy and deepest condolences to the youngster's family. Very unfortunate incident. Meanwhile I am thinking of poor security guard who had to suffer the consequences of a poor decision made in implse reaction. Hopefully some one will help this poor chap to get the justice, instead of revenge.
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Mar 22, 2016 03:08am
whoever blaming the child, they may don't have one
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Mar 22, 2016 03:51am
Whose guard was he? The person's keeping guard shall be punished as well for ill act of the guard they have kept. Its them who create pressure and give such instruction to them.
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Mar 22, 2016 06:02am
When was the last time you heard of a security guard actually shooting a bad guy?
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Mar 22, 2016 06:46am
In the west they have banned plastic replica guns as they can lead to misunderstandings...we need to train our people also on how to behave in these difficult times and help the security agencies not make their life difficult....But unfortunately we do not have the concept of responsibilities of the citizens.
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Mar 22, 2016 06:46am
how ignorant can one get? these security guard are poorly trained.
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Mar 22, 2016 07:36am
Put yourself in that situation and then post non sense comments
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Mar 22, 2016 09:55am
OOOOOO. It hurts. I am in tears.
We are at fault. Poor kid.
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Mar 22, 2016 10:07am
It is a great tragedy .We pray for the departed soul.God may give strength the bereaved family to bear irreparable loss.( MUMTAZ SHAH Texas )
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Mar 22, 2016 03:14pm
I think, the guard responded accordingly without knowing who's behind the veil? Its duty of parents/elders to guide their children not to prank armed guards keeping in view the current law n order situation of the country.
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