90 killed sectarian clashes in Karachi in a week

November 12, 2012 22:46

At least 90 people, including members of the minority Shia community, have been killed in various incidents of target killings in Pakistan's commercial city of Karachi in the past week, as five more lives were lost today.

Five more people were killed today taking the death toll in the target killings and sectarian violence in the city to 90.

A doctor, identified as Nisar, working at the Lyari hospital was shot dead today in a busy market.

Earlier during the day, a firing incident in the Memon Goth area of Malir in the city left two people injured, who later succumbed to their injuries. Two other people also lost their lives to target killings today.

The violence in the city has claimed at least 90 lives in the past week.

In an incident that left three people injured, Shia Muslim mourners at a funeral clashed with the participants of a rally taken out by Sunni Muslims.

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