Karachi:
At midnight, the city has repercussions with the crackling of the shots while hundreds of people used air shots to celebrate independence.
Without restrained air shots and fireworks have disrupted the peace of the city, transforming the party into a tragedy. Three people, including an eight -year -old girl and a 70 -year -old man, died, while 81 others were injured.
According to police, 51 men, 23 women, six boys and a girl were among the injured. Police arrested 39 suspects in various areas of the city and recovered a variety of firearms used in illegal celebration shots.
In a particularly heartbreaking incident, Naaha, eight years old, was shot dead by wandering shots at Azizabad Block Eight. She lost her life by standing on her balcony with a Pakistani flag pinned to her chest.
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According to a friend of the family, Naaha sat in fear when the gunshots sounded but were fatally struck in the back of the head. His family precipitated her in a neighboring hospital, where the staff would have refused to register the case. She was then taken to Abbasi Shaheed hospital, where the doctors confirmed her death.
In addition, Stephen, 35, a resident of the Christian colony near the city police station of Zaman, was killed in an incident similar to Korangi. His body was transferred to Jinnah hospital.
Jumma, seventy years, was also killed by an air shot in the Lyari Kalri district near the colony of Agra Taj. His body was taken to the civil hospital.
Wounded people have been reported in almost all parts of the city-north of Nazimabad, Malir, Korangi, Orangi Town, Liaquatabad, Surjani, Gulshan-E-Iqbal, Lyari, and beyond.
The victims were between seven to over 50 years old, injuries varying in gravity. These include Umar, 11, injured in northern Nazimabad; Ramzan, 48, injured in Gulshan-E-Baloch; Isa, eight years old, pulled in the GDP colony; Florence, 16, injured in the FC region; And Sidra, injured in the colony of Bilal.
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Hospitals like Abbasi Shaheed, Jinnah and Civil have received a continuous flow of victims throughout the night.
City police have confirmed that 57 suspects had been apprehended for the involvement of air layoffs. Weapons of variable calibers were confiscated during the raids at the scale of the city. Authorities have promised severe measures against officials and have called on the public to refrain from dangerous festive shots in the future.
Family members and local residents expressed their anger and sorrow, criticizing provincial authorities for having aximizing air shots despite repeated incidents in previous years.
“Each year, we fear this evening more than we celebrate it,” said a liaquatabad resident. “It is not independence but chaos.”
