At least 12 people, including three women, became latest victims of target killing frenzy and half-a-dozen were injured in the past 24 hours in Karachi, police and ambulance services said.Those fell prey to freely roaming terrorists included the wife and daughter of a Balochistan provincial assembly legislator, a security guard of a mobile phone franchise, three MQM and two Shia sect members in various localities of the city.
So far in January this year more than 30 people have lost their lives in the city including lawyers, doctors and political workers.
Gunmen riding motorbikes sprayed a car parked near Gizri Flyover carrying the wife and daughter of Balochistan MPA, Mir Mohammad Bakhtiar Khan Domki belonging to Sibi in the early hours of Tuesday. T
he driver of the vehicle was also killed in the ghastly ambush while another woman survived apart from scratches.
A grief stricken Domki, who is grandson of late slain Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti told newsmen that the loss of wife and daughter once for exposed that the government had failed to protect the people.
“I do not expect justice. All the Sindh Government could do is to form a few worthless committees and judicial committees.
Late on Monday night, three activists of MQM identified as Adil, Irfran and Adnan in a jeep were intercepted by men riding motorcycles and sprayed their vehicles with bullets killing the three men.
Earlier on Tuesday, unidentified men in a brazen attack sprayed a volley of bullets on a bus loaded with passengers in Nazimabad killing one man who died on the spot and injuring five others.
Later, armed men on two motorcycles attacked a mobile phone outlet in middle class locality of Nazimabad and shot dead a securityguard and a woman before fleeing.
This is the fourth attack in recent months on mobile phone outlets in the city and the local police intelligence agencies were still groping in the dark over these deadly attacks.
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