Policemen issue contradictory statements over firing incidents in Karachi

KARACHI: A number of top-ranked police officials have issued contradictory statements over the number of car firing incidents after a gun attack left one dead and another critically injured in Karachi, ARY News reported on Friday.

At least one lost life and other severely wounded when unidentified gunmen opened fire on cars belonging to famous seminary Darul Uloom Karachi near Nipa flyover at Gulshan-e-Iqbal area. The affected persons were shifted to Jinnah Hospital.

Meanwhile, some police officers say that a second vehicle also came under attack in the Nursery area, leaving one dead and other injured which were shifted to Liaquat National Hospital.

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Additional Inspector General (AIG) Karachi, Amir Sheikh, told media that the assailants attacked the second vehicle which was following Mufti Usmani’s car near Nipa roundabout.

“Not two, it is a single incident of firing and Maulana Taqi Usmani was the target,” the police officer said.

He said that Maulana Taqi Usmani remained safe as he was not boarded on the car which came under attack. The police officer said that the cleric was renowned for his neutral personality and services. He expressed sorrow over the attack on Mufti Taqi Usmani.

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Sheikh also rejected suspicions that the recent attacks were continuity and an attempt to spread sectarian violence in the metropolis.

On one hand, Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) in-charge Raja Umar Khattab has said that two terrorist incidents occurred in Karachi’s Nipa and Nursery areas.

Khattab said that the attackers possibly belonged to the same group who were distributed in separate teams to carry out the terror attacks.

 

While briefing media, the CTD official said that a security guard Sanober Khan was killed in Nipa’s firing incident and left Maulana Amir Shahab severely wounded. He added that a security guard was also killed in the Nursery’s attack on the second vehicle.