- Title: PAKISTAN: SEVEN PEOPLE KILLED DURING AN ENFORCED STRIKE
- Date: 22nd May 1995
- Summary: KARACHI, PAKISTAN (MAY 22, 1995) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. SV FIRES BURNING ON ROADS PEOPLE RUNNING ACROSS ROAD AND THROWING STONES (4 SHOTS) 0.16 2. SV VANS BURNING (3 SHOTS) 0.28 3. SV STREET AND SMOKE RISING IN DISTANCE 0.33 4. SV SECURITY 0.37 5. SCU POLICEMAN WITH GUN 0.40 6. SV VAN BURNING 0.44 7. SV BOY THROWING STONES AT CARS 0.48 8. SV HOSPITAL 0.53 9. SV BODY BROUGHT INTO HOSPITAL 1.09 10. SV AMBULANCE CARRYING BODY OF MAN KILLED IN VIOLENCE 1.22 11. SCU MAN SAYING THAT HIS BROTHER HAD BEEN KILLED BY GUNMEN (URDU) 1.32 12. SV DOCTORS WITH WOUNDED 1.36 13. SV WOUNDED MAN IN BED 1.41 14. SV CLOSED SHOPS 1.45 15. SV BURNT OUT VAN ON STREET 1.48 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
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- Location: KARACHI, PAKISTAN
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- Country: Pakistan ASIA
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- Story Text: At least seven people were killed and 25 wounded in Karachi on Monday (May 22) as the ethnic Mohajir National Movement (MQM) enforced a strike that virtually paralysed the southern Pakistani port city.
The "black day" declared by the MQM provided a baptism of fire for newly-appointed Sindh provincial governor Kamal Azfar, due to be sworn in at Karachi's Governor House later on Monday.
Witnesses said at least 20 buses were set ablaze to keep transport off the roads. Traffic was thin. Airline passengers could not reach the airport for lack of taxis. Thousands of children waited in vain for buses to take them to school.
Most shops were closed in central parts of the city and banks pulled down their shutters to avoid being attacked by bands of stone-throwing youths roaming the streets.
Ambulance workers said a young man was shot and killed in central Karachi, two bullet-riddled bodies were found in the central Nazimabad district and a third body with gunshot wounds was picked up from Korangi in eastern Karachi.
The latest deaths brought to 83 the number of people killed in ethnic and sectarian strife in Karachi this month. More than 520 have been killed in the city this year.
Police said MQM militants were forcing people to stay indoors at gun-point to enforce the strike, called in protest at what the MQM calls repression by the security forces.
Gunmen on a motorcycle wounded three people near a mosque at Firdous Colony in central Karachi, officials said. Two other people were shot and wounded in North Karachi and the central Federal B Area.
Karachi, a city of about 12 million people, has been tense since a new round of violence erupted on Thursday when police and paramilitary rangers launched raids in North Nazimabad.
The area is a stronghold of the MQM, which speaks for the majority Mohajir community of Urdu-speaking Moslems who fled to Pakistan from India after partition in 1947.
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