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KARACHI: At least 11 people were killed Saturday in separate incidents of violence in different parts of Karachi, DawnNews reported.

Three people were gunned down and one person was injured in during firing in the city’s Orangi Town. The assailants managed to flee the scene and the bodies and the injured were shifted to a hospital.

In another incident, one person was shot dead in Karachi’s Shah Faisal Colony. Police said the victim, who was killed in the colony’s Green Town area, was a teacher in a madrassah.

Separately, two people were killed during firing in the city’s Moach Goth area, falling within the limits of the Mauripur police station, whereas, one person was shot dead in Liaquatabad’s B-1 area.

Furthermore, a body bearing torture marks was found in Karachi’s Gulshan-i-Iqbal Town. The body has not yet been identified.

Also, in the city’s New Mianwali Colony in Manghopir, two alleged dacoits and a female bystander were killed during a police encounter.

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