KARACHI, April 10: A young man was shot and wounded and a police vehicle was set ablaze in the Lines Area late on Tuesday night as a shootout between supporters of two religious schools of thought led to a mob attack on a mosque.

At least 12 people, including the imam and muezzin of the mosque, were stuck inside the mosque when we went to press.

The administration initiated talks with the two groups late in the night.Tension and fear gripped the neighbourhood as the police sealed off the Lines Area.

Mohammed Yousuf Salfi, a spokesman for the Jamiat Ahle Hadis, told Dawn that he had been stuck in the imam’s room for over four hours.

“The armed workers of the Sunni Tehreek have surrounded the mosque while we have locked ourselves in the room,” he said.

DIG Mushtaq Shah told Dawn that a police mobile van had been put on fire and a man sustained bullet wound in the shootout. “We are trying to control the situation.”