Six killed in violence in Karachi

Six people have been killed and several, including a civil judge, injured in separate acts of violence in Karachi, Pakistan, officials said Wednesday. Two youngsters who had been critically wounded when they were shot by unidentified gunmen in Haryana Colony of Orangi Town died at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, the Pakistan news agency INP reported. The shootings could have been motivated by what INP called "personal enmity." Ghulam Rasool, a laborer at at ice cream factory in the Defence area of the city, was fatally shot by unidentified gunmen. Police found the bodies of two people who had been shot and tortured in a timber market adjacent to Lyari, INP said. Abdul Ghaffar, 36, who had been shot a few days earlier near Kala Pul, died Wednesday at Jinnah Hospital. A civil judge, Syed Zaheer Naqvi, was wounded when he was shot by an unidentified motorcyclist in the Ancholi area. Naqvi was taken to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where sources said he was in critical condition with gunshot wounds to his chest. More than 10 people were injured in shootings in the city, INP said.