The thirteen women, teenage boys and babies who were killed in a grenade attack in Karachi s Baldia Saturday night were on their way back not from a wedding but a post-nuptial ritual as part of Pakhtun tradition. Had fate not intervened, the bride s name could also have been on the list of victims. The attack took place at Hub River Road (also known as RCD highway) near Mowach Morr. The Shehzore mini truck, whose cargo bed was packed with about 25 passengers, mostly women, their sons and brothers, was attacked by militants, said police. Initial reports on Saturday night suggested that they were returning from a wedding in Faqeera Goth but additional details emerged Sunday. AN.
They added that unidentified suspects opened fire on the victims near Pareshan Chowk in Faqeera Goth.
As a result, Khalid Rind was gunned down while another unidentified person was wounded. The dead and the wounded were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
SITE Superhighway Industrial Area SHO Gulzar Ali Tunio said that the police had got some clues about the motive of the murder, however, they were waiting for relatives to lodge an FIR with the police to formally launch a probe into the incident.
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A meeting was held at the headquarters of the Pakistan Rangers Sindh under the chair of DG Rangers, Maj Gen Iftikhar Husain Chaudhry, which reviewed overall law and order situation.
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