KARACHI, Oct 23: Tension gripped parts of the mafia-infested Lyari late on Thursday night after three people were killed in two separate attacks on rivals in Kalakot, police and witnesses said.
They said violence erupted in the locality after an alleged 34-year-old gangster was killed and his elder brother wounded critically when the rival gangsters opened fire on them in Nawa Lane near Cheel Chowk at around 6.30pm.
The witnesses said the whole vicinity reverberated with heavy gunfire following the attack, with shopkeepers pulling down their shutters and vehicles disappearing from the streets.
The victim’s body and the wounded man were taken to the Civil Hospital, where sources told Dawn that the 40-year-old injured man was in a highly critical condition as he had received a life-threatening wound to the head.
The police said the dead man, identified as Faiz Mohammed alias Faizu, was an active member of the gangland and wanted in several criminal cases. However, they said, the victim’s injured brother, Wali Mohammed, had no criminal record.
The witnesses said the relatives of the dead resorted to heavy firing in the vicinity when they brought the body back from the hospital. They said the rivals also retaliated and killed two more people belonging to Faizu’s family.
The bodies were taken to the Civil Hospital, where the victims were identified as Asif and Akhlaq, both in their 20s.Lyari Town SP Raja Umer Khattab told Dawn that both the victims and the attackers belonged to the Rahman Dakait’s gang.
Killed over enmity
A 27-yea-old man was killed and another wounded late in the night when an unknown attacker opened fire on their car near Sunset Club in the Defence Housing Authority.
The Defence police said that Javed Khan, son of Abdur Rauf Khan, was on his way along with his friend, Muneer Ahmed, son of Baraat Ali, in his car when four attackers on two motorcycles sprayed them with bullets.
They said that Javed Khan died instantly and the attackers fled the scene after their swift operation.
The body and the wounded were shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where the wounded man was also stated to be in a critical condition.
The police said that the victim was a Pathan, hailing from Quetta, and had been living in Akhtar Colony for the past one month.
They said that the incident was motivated by a personal enmity.
The police said that the victim’s father was also murdered some 10 years ago over a family feud.
No case was registered till late as the police were waiting for the complainant from the victim’s family.
‘Idler’ shot dead
They said that a 20-year-old man was shot dead near his house in Korangi No 1.
The Zaman Town police said that the victim, Hameed Hussain, son of Ahmed, was an idler.
The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a postmortem examination.
Sources at the hospital’s medico-legal section told Dawn that the victim sustained at least five bullets in his upper torso.
The police registered a case against unknown culprits on the complaint of the victim’s father.
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