Assassination Sparks Deadly Karachi Violence
August 03 2010
Pakistan
Violence spread overnight Tuesday across Pakistan's largest city after a provincial lawmaker and political leader was assassinated, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Raza Haider, a senior leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) political party, was shot by gunmen on motorcycles while he was attending a funeral Monday at a Karachi mosque.
The death triggered a wave of reprisal killings that have left at least 45 people dead and 93 people injured as of Tuesday afternoon,...
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