DTN News: Pakistan TODAY October 20, 2010 - No Let-Up In Karachi Bloodshed, 29 Killed In A Day....NSI News Source Info # 1142

DTN News: Pakistan TODAY October 20, 2010 - No Let-Up In Karachi Bloodshed, 29 Killed In A Day....NSI News Source Info # 1142
(NSI News Source Info) KARACHI, Pakistan - October 20, 2010: Daylong violence in different parts of Karachi on Tuesday claimed at least 29 lives, 12 of them in an attack on a sc
rap market in Shershah area.
The city, which was already tense following early morning shootouts and killings in different areas, further descended into fear and panic after the Shershah attack. Scattered incidents of target killing followed.
At least 12 people, most of them shopkeepers and workers, were killed and eight others injured when about 10 unknown men opened fire.
The assailants stepped off motorcycles after entering one of the oldest scrap markets in the city and opened fire on shopkeepers.
A man, Anis Anwer, and his two sons, Umair Anis and Zubair Anis, were among the victims. Sources said that Anis Anwer had six daughters.