KARACHI, March 7: A 15-year-old boy was shot dead and his younger brother wounded when members of a notorious gang opened fire in a lane in Lyari.

Police said the attackers opened fire at the participants of the soyem of a woman near Haroonia Masjid in the limits of Baghdadi police killing Dilshad, son of Amir Hussain Samoon, and injuring his 14-year-old brother, Zohaib.

One of the attackers, Naushad, who was stated to be a brother of, Shah Zeb alleged member of the notorious Arshad Pappu gang, was arrested.

Tension gripped the entire locality after the shooting incidents prompting intensified patrolling by police and rangers in the sensitive parts.

A two-and-half-year-old girl was wounded on Tuesday in a hand-grenade blast in Kalakot amid tension caused by the ongoing gang war in certain parts of Lyari. An eight-year-old boy was killed in a hand-grenade blast late on Monday night in Chakiwara.

Eyewitnesses said that the gangsters belonging to Arshad Pappu gang and Rehman Dakait gang had taken position on rooftops and in narrow lanes of their respective strongholds from where they attack each other with fire arms intermittently.

DSP of the Lyari Task Force Hafez Junejo told Dawn that tension prevailed in the affected areas. “We have intensified patrolling and a search operation on under way in certain parts of the disturbed localities,” he added.

The police officer said that personnel from four police stations – Kalri, Baghdadi, Kalakot and Chakiwara – had been deployed in the affected areas.