Karachi: At least seven people were found murdered on Saturday in the continuous wave of violence wave in the city.
Police sources said that the bodies of three unidentified people were found along the Malir River on Saturday morning. The bodies carried torture marks and bore gunshots. Another body was found in Baldia Town in the western district.
Two people were killed in different parts of the country by unknown people whereas police gunned down a robber during an encounter.
The police were trying to identify the dumped bodies. The three bodies were found a day after the bodies of three missing Baloch men were found on Friday.
All the three Baloch men were missing from insurgency-hit Balochistan province and their bodies were found in the Malir River.
Police said that the three Baloch men were kidnapped and killed somewhere else before their bodies were dumped on the dry river bed.
The three more bodies recovered on Saturday, whose identities were not yet confirmed, was also suspected to be Baloch.
In Balochistan province, separatists and insurgents have been a fighting guerilla war for self-rule and have targeted security forces and state installations at different places.
The wave of deaths has surged again in this restive city as the unknown gunmen were targeting law enforcement personnel and sectarian personalities.
Unknown killers gunned down a policeman on Friday taking the death toll of policemen killed to five in the current week.
Tension further gripped the city as the protesters of Imran Khan’s party were planning to block the Shahrae Faisal by staging a sit-in there. The road is a major artery which connects the city with the airport.
Karachi police chief Ghulam Qadir Thebo in a statement said that no rally would be allowed at the Shahrae Faisal. However, he said that the protesters could stage their sit-in at the service road along the main road.
