PAKISTAN: At least 14 people , including women and children, have been killed in street battles between rival gangs in a notoriously violent district of Pakistan's financial hub, Karachi

Record ID: 402476

  • Title: PAKISTAN: At least 14 people , including women and children, have been killed in street battles between rival gangs in a notoriously violent district of Pakistan's financial hub, Karachi
  • Date: 12th March 2014
  • Summary: KARACHI, PAKISTAN (MARCH 12, 2014) (REUTERS) PEOPLE AND AMBULANCES OUTSIDE CIVIL HOSPITAL RELATIVES AND OTHER PEOPLE TRYING TO PEEP INTO AMBULANCE CARRYING BODY RELATIVES OF VICTIMS CRYING RELATIVES OF VICTIMS GATHERED/AMBULANCE BACKING AMBULANCES PARKED PEOPLE GATHERED (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) UNIDENTIFIED EYE WITNESS, SAYING: "There are women, children and men among them. Mo
  • Embargoed: 27th March 2014 12:00
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  • Location: Pakistan
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVA337D4UJTT8QFGMPDSE38TQTW1
  • Story Text: Rival gangs opened fire and lobbed grenades in a notoriously violent district of Pakistan's financial hub, Karachi, on Wednesday (March12), 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.
    The wounded and dead were taken to the nearby Civil Hospital by private charity services active in city.
    Security forces usually avoid venturing into Lyari.
    Karachi, the nuclear-armed country's key port and home to the stock exchange, typically has about a dozen murders a day, a combination of political killings, attacks by the Taliban and sectarian militant groups, and street crime.
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