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Karachi : At least 37 people have been killed in Past 36 hours in a wave of violence in Karachi. The fresh wave of violence began on Tuesday which claimed the lives of Ten people on that day and another 19 people, including five passengers of a minibus, were killed on Wednesday.
The main violent areas were Orangi Town, Lyari, Baldia Town, Site and Gulshan-i-Iqbal.
According to Police armed men hijacked the minibus from Rashid Minhas Road and shot the five passengers, three of them relatives, in the head. The assailants managed to escape after dumping the vehicle in the Ziaul Haq Colony in Gulshan-i-Iqbal.
In a few hours after Wednesday midnight, at least five people were killed in different parts of the city. A spokesman for the Awami National Party claimed that at least two of its workers were killed and seven wounded in incidents of firing on Wednesday.
Police claimed to have arrested 12 suspects in Orangi Town and recovered some weapons from them.
