At least eight people, including a spokesperson of a radical Sunni Muslim group, were killed in separate incidents of target killings in Pakistan's port city of Karachi on Sunday.
Maulana Akbar Saeed Farooqi, the spokesman of Sunni Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), was shot at near Safari Park in Karachi's Gulshan-i-Iqbal area, police said.
He was shifted to a hospital for treatment where he succumbed to his wounds, Dawn reported.
In another incident, unidentified persons killed two people in Sector A area of Karachi's Surjani town. The situation in the locality was tense after the incident.
Another person was gunned down in New Karachi's Ayub Goth area.
One person was also killed in Zia colony of Karachi's Korangi area whereas another was killed in Korangi area's Bilal colony area.
Moreover two bodies, bearing marks of torture, were recovered from the Korangi Creek in Ibrahim Hyderi area of Karachi.
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