At least five killed in Karachi violence

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Policemen on a street in Karachi. — File photo

KARACHI: At least five people were killed in incidents of firing in Karachi on Friday, DawnNews reported.

Unknown gunmen shot three people dead in the city's Mansehra Colony (in Landhi). Moreover, four others, including a woman and a child, were wounded in the incident.

Meanwhile, two people were shot dead in the city's areas of Shah Faisal Colony and Gulbai.

Earlier violence

Moreover, at least nine people were killed in incidents of firing in the city overnight.

Those killed included two brothers and three others who were on their way to collect bodies.

Attackers fired at a car and an ambulance at Shahrah-i-Pakistan in Ancholi, wounding five people, including a woman. Three of the wounded succumbed to their injuries at the hospital. The two injured were said to be in a critical condition.

In another incident, two brothers were killed when gunmen shot at them in Karachi’s Baldia Town No. 5.

Also in Baldia, gunmen fired at two policemen who were on patrol duty near Khyber chowk.

One person was shot dead in Sohrab Goth’s Hassan Nauman Colony and another was killed in Lyari’s Dhobi Ghath.

Separately, a body was found near Sindhi Hotel in Liaquatabad.

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