KARACHI: Firing continues in old city areas including Lyari and those surrounding it while the death toll during the last 17 hours in the targeted killings in the provincial capital has mounted to 31, bringing the number of people killed in two days to 47.
Eighteen out of the 31 killed are those who were slain after being abducted from houses and passenger busses in different parts of the city.
During the last 36 hours post-mortem of 39 bodies has been carried out, said a Senior Medico-Legal officer Dr. Aftab Chunar. He said 34 autopsies were done in Civil Hospital while 5 in Jinnah Hospital. Medical cases of 35 injured were also registered.
He said many families were taking away the bodies of their loved ones without waiting for the legal formalities to be completed.
The spokesman of Edhi Welfare Trust said that 19 bodies had so far been shifted to Edhi morgue and out of these 10 were yet to be identified.
According to police and Capital Police Liaison Centre (CPLC), reports were coming in of 30 people having gone missing.
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