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Posted by knowHim (Member # 8) on :

Seven Christians executed in Karachi attack

Seven Christian charity workers have been shot dead in an attack by two gunmen on their offices in Karachi.

Stairs leading to where the murders took place are stained with blood
All of the victims had been tied to chairs with their mouths taped shut before being shot in the head at point blank range with a pistol, police said.

Six of the men died instantly, while a seventh died shortly afterwards at Karachi's main hospital.

Medical officials said an eighth man who was shot will be permenantly paralysed on his left side while another man had been beaten up by the attackers.

The killings were carried out this morning at the city centre offices of the Idare-e Amn-O-Insaf, or the Organisation for Peace and Justice, on the third floor of a 12-storey building shared with a hospital.

The charity is run by Pakistani Christians and concentrates on social and justice issues. A recent issue of a magazine published by the charity was strongly critical of Pakistan's strict blasphemy laws.

Witnesses said the gunmen, who escaped after the attack, were clean shaven and dressed in shirt and trousers.

Police said they had started to question the man who was beaten in the attack but he had fainted shortly after the interrogation had begun.

Detectives said they were investigating the shootings with an open mind but did not rule out the possibility that the killings were connected with other attacks on Christians in Pakistan.

More than two dozen Islamic militants have been arrested over a series of attacks aimed at Christians and Western diplomats and workers.

The killings, which began last October when 17 people were shot dead in an attack on a church in Bahawalpur, have been prompted by Pakistan's support for the American-led offensive in Afghanistan which resulted in the Taliban being overthrown.

Last week, police claimed to have arrested the mastermind of two bombings in Karachi earlier this year in which 27 people died, including 11 French engineers.

In August, gunmen killed six people at a school for the children of foreign missionaries. Four days later, four Pakistani nurses were killed in a grenade attack at a Christian hospital in the town of Taxila.

http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/09/25/upak.xml

Posted by Kindgo (Member # 2) on :

Mourning

Unidentified relatives of a shooting victim cry outside a local hospital after gunmen killed seven at the offices of a Christian welfare organization in the southern port city of Karachi, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2002.