KARACHI: Police on Wednesday claimed to have arrested another suspect involved in the recent ethnic riots in the Sohrab Goth neighbourhood of Karachi following the killing of a man in Hyderabad.
According to Karachi (East) Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Abdul Rahim Sheerazi, Naqeeb was arrested with the help of CCTV footage. He had snatched a weapon from a police inspector and opened fire at him during the protest at Sohrab Goth.
Fortunately, the cop survived the attack, the police said, adding further interrogation was underway.
Last week, protests broke out in the Sohrab Goth neighbourhood that suspended the traffic at the M-9 motorway after a youth, Bilal Kaka, was murdered at a hotel in Hyderabad.
According to the FIR, which was registered at Bhitai Nagar police station, Kaka and his four friends were having dinner at Super Salateen Hotel along Hyderabad Bypass and near Wadhu Wah Gate, when an argument sparked with the waiter.
The friends approached the owner with the complaint but he allegedly further aggravated the situation which descended into a fight.
Kaka was fatally attacked with iron barbeque skewers. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Liaquat University of Medical and Health Sciences (LUMHS). His brother Salam Kaka, who is a security guard, has nominated the owner Haji Shah Sawar and four others in the FIR lodged under Sections 302, 324, 147, 148, 149, 337 (H2) and 109 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).
