Karachi: Target killing of MQM’s former Unit In charge, Syed Yawar Abbas, in Karachi’s Pir Ilahi Bux Colony on Saturday sparked violence, triggering tension and riots in the city, in which three more people lost their lives.Sources said that the 32-year-old local leader of MQM was standing outside his home in Aminabad area of PIB Colony, when unknown motorcyclists opened fire, injuring him. He was taken to hospital where he breathed his last. After the murder, arson and firing incidents were reported in different parts, including Nazimabad, Teen Hatti, Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Nishter road and SITE, of the commercial capital of Pakistan, killing three people and injuring 18. The injured were shifted to different hospitals. Two of the killed lost their lives in firing incidents while one died of burn injuries.
Unknown people torched four vehicles, two buses and a rickshaw among them, at different places.
Shops and markets in several parts of the city closed and people started to return their homes in hurry, which caused severe traffic jams at various city roads.
DSP New Town Fakhrul Islam was injured in stone-throwing by a mob.
Police and Rangers cordoned off the road leading to Sohrab Goth from Teen Hatti after an angry mob blocked it.
A spokesman for MQM has confirmed that Yawar Abbas, whose Namaz-e-Janaza was offered in Rizia Society in the evening, was their party worker.
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