Armed men launched an offensive against the Stock Exchange of the Pakistani financial capital. A dozen people have died.
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At least six people died, including a police officer, when four armed men entered Monday in the Stock exchange of Karachi (South), the financial capital of Pakistan, an attack claimed by a separatist group of the neighboring province of Baluchistan.
“Four guards and one civilian were killed,” as well as a police officer, “in a grenade and rifle terrorist attack” on the Karachi Stock Exchange, the police said in a statement. The Edhi foundation, the main relief organization in Karachi, for its part reported seven dead and seven injured, according to its official, Faisal Edhi. The four attackers were also killed.
The attack on the Karachi Stock Exchange comes ten days after a grenade was thrown in a queue outside a welfare office, killing one person and injuring eight others. No group had claimed responsibility for the attack.
After a bloody decade, during which the attacks were daily, violence has dropped very sharply in Pakistan. Such attacks are the exception when they were previously the norm.
The port city of Karachi, which for years has been hit by heavy crime, is now much safer after the territory is taken over by the security forces.
