Shoaib Burney, a journalist for a personal news channel, was injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire on his vehicle on Rashid Minhas Road.
After being rushed to the hospital, his condition is now stable.
In three distinct firing incidents that resulted from resistance to robbery, numerous persons were hurt in various parts of Karachi. The occurrences happened at Azizabad, Liaquatabad, and Site Superhighway, according to ARY News.
The armed assailants made a clean getaway in all three cases. The law and order in Karachi continue to remain in a deteriorated state.
On Sunday, a minor woman was killed when a stray bullet entered her home in Karachi’s Mominabad community on Sunday.
Six-year-old Aqsa Khalid is the deceased girl. According to his father, they were having dinner at home when the tragedy struck. The father continued, “All of a sudden, my daughter was shot in the head. “
Meanwhile, while the robbery was being prepared, a man and his son were seriously injured, as a result of which the latter succumbed to his injuries in the town of Surjani in Karachi, ARY News reported on Friday, citing police sources.
This comes amid a surge in street crime in Karachi in recent days. Police said the son had succumbed to his injuries and the father was still being treated.
The incident occurred while the deceased and his father were on their way to a wedding when they were assaulted.
This is not the first incident of street crime or robbery in Karachi.
The rising crime rate in Karachi, Pakistan, has created a psychosis of worry and a sense of lack of trust among locals, as roughly two-thirds of the city’s population have experienced these types of incidents in one form or another. and nearly a quarter have directly suffered the loss of life,” Dawn reported, citing a study.
As for the emerging crime rates, they noted that Karachi citizens described them as alarming. (ANI)