Karachi: Violence claims 2 more lives

Karachi: Violence claims 2 more lives
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Summary At least two people were killed in different acts of violence in Karachi on Friday.

KARACHI (Dunya News) – Target killing continues in Karachi a two more people were gunned down in different parts of the city on Friday.

 According to detail, some unidentified persons opened fire in Korangi Industrial area and shot dead a man and injured three others.

 Police have shifted the dead and injured to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

 In another incident of firing, a man was gunned down near Allag Din Park at the Rashid Minhas Road. The identity of the deceased is not yet known.

A bloody wave of killings and kidnappings has hit Karachi, a sprawling metropolis of 18 million people on the Arabian Sea and Pakistan s economic heart.

Bloody gang wars fed by ethnic and political bitterness, drugs and the Taliban, have created a culture of impunity, and the past two years have seen record death tolls.

In the first six months of 2013, 1,726 people were killed in Karachi compared with a previous high of 1,215 in the same period last year, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.

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