Violence claims 15 lives in Pakistan's Karachi

09:54, 20 May 2010

KARACHI. May 20. KAZINFORM Targeted attacks claimed the lives of at least 15 people in the south Pakistan port city of Karachi, police sources said on Wednesday; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

Police said that unidentified people shot dead 15 people in different parts of Karachi, the country's biggest city with several ethnic communities.

Miscreants also torched vehicles in the city of some 14 million people, police and witnesses said. They said that shopkeepers closed down shops in panic.

Police said that violence increased in the city after the Tuesday killing of a person at Shah Faisal Colony neighbhorhood near a police station. Three others were also killed in targeted killings, police said.

Violence erupted on Wednesday in the morning when unidentified gunmen killed one person in the Gulistan Jauhar area of the city.

Police said that gunmen resorted to firing at Landhi, Korangi, Orangi, North Nazimabad, Sher Shah, Malir, Quaid Abad, and Qasba Colony areas. Some 12 people were also injured in the firing incidents, they said; Kazinform cites Xinhua. See www.news.xinhuanet.com for full version.

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