adminIslamabad — Rival gangs opened fire and lobbed grenades in a notoriously violent district of Pakistan’s financial hub, Karachi, yesterday, killing 14 people, including eight women and three children, police said.
Karachi, a city and port of more than 18 million people, is home to many militant groups, including the Pakistani Taliban. Many political parties there have armed wings to fight turf wars.
More than two dozen people were wounded in the violence which erupted in Lyari, one of South Asia’s most dangerous neighbourhoods, where rival gangs have been fighting for years for control.
A brother of a gang leader was killed by police on Tuesday night. “In reaction, gangsters came to a market yesterday morning in Lyari and opened indiscriminate fire, killing women and children along with the men,” senior police officer Abdul Khalique Shaikh said. – Reuters
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