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The life of four-year-old Harmeen, who was killed in crossfire between robbers and private security guards, could have been saved if hospitals had promptly tended to her wounds, her family says. The family and health officials have told SAMAA Digital that the young child died two hours after a bullet hit her outside a super mart in Karachi s Shah Latif Town on Wednesday night. With a critical head wound, she was first taken to a private hospital which effectively refused to treat her. Then, she had to share an ambulance with another patient to be moved to Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre (JPMC). Harmeen and her older brother Shehbaz were passing by the super mart on .
The head of the province, the chief minister, may have ordered the head of police or the IG to investigate the kidnapping and sexual assault of a Khwaja sira in Karachi but the victim is too scared to come forward. The Khwaja sira, who will not be named, was kidnapped from Nazimabad on Saturday and taken to an unknown place where they were tortured and sexually abused. Gender Interactive Alliance Violence Case Manager Shehzadi Rai told Samaa Digital that the victim was kidnapped a day before the Climate March when they were on their way back home after attending a meeting of the organisers of the march. The Climate March was organized by the Karachi Bachao Tehreek that has been .
The Awami Colony police have arrested a Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) employee for unintentional murder after a child died from eating poisonous sweets that the KMC staffer was handling during a campaign to cull stray dogs. A two-year-old child in Karachi’s Korangi K area died on Monday night after he and a few others ate the poisonous sweets that the KMC employee had left unattended on his motorcycle. A woman and three other people were moved to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre or JPMC after their condition deteriorated. According to the child’s father Waqas, the victims picked up the sweets placed on a motorcycle parked in the area. “It belonged to a local govern.