Seven more butchered in Karachi

KARACHI: The bloodshed in the city continues unabated, as seven more persons were killed Sunday, Geo News reported. The carnage, which started on August 17, still remains beyond control for most likely the lack of will on the part of the authorities for reasons best known to them only. Police said that two bagged-up bodies of two young men were found this morning in MPR Colony in Orangi Town. The youths were kidnapped, brutally tortured and shot dead, police said. Rescue sources said that one body was also recovered from under the Teenhatti Bridge, which immediately could not be identified. Another tortured body was found bagged-up in a gunnysack in Pak Colony. Police identified the victim as Rizwan, a resident of Garden area. Police said that some unknown persons’ firing killed Samiullah, 28 and injured two persons near Safari Park. Police said that the two rival drug mafias traded firing overnight at Chanesar Goth, Mahmoodabad. Meanwhile, Sheharyar 10 and Zeeshan 15 were killed in the Snooker Club firing. A house was also torched in the feud. Besides, a day earlier, Water Board Superintending Engineer, Khalid Siddiqui was targeted and shot dead, while one accompanying him sustained serious injuries in Gulshan-e-Hadeed, when some armed persons opened fire on his car. However, mind boggles at the fact that the police failed to arrest any of the culprits.