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Police stand alert on a street in Karachi. — File Photo by AFP

KARACHI: Three people were killed in incidents of firing in Karachi, DawnNews reported on Tuesday.

Two people were killed in Orangi Town's Baloch Goth area and their bodies were shifted to the Abbasi Shahid Hospital. Police said the two were killed over a personal enmity and took four people into custody.

Moreover, unknown assailants gunned down one man in the city's Soldier Bazaar area. The man was a resident of the city's Gulbahar area.

Separately in Gulbahar, two people were injured in an incident of firing.

Furthermore, in Karachi’s Gulshan-i-Maymar area, the body of an 18-year-old girl bearing torture marks was recovered. The girl had however not yet been identified.

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