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The death toll from the ongoing spate of targeted killing hit seven within the last 22 hours, Dunya News reported on Sunday. A bullet-riddled body of a man namely Murtaza was found from Malir Memon Goth. Police said the body bore 5 gunshot wounds. Late on Saturday night four armed men on two motorcycles attacked a group of friends sitting outside an office of the Pakistan Peoples Party in Orangi Town. The firing left five people injured and while they were being shifted to hospital, two of them Zubair alias Kala and Tahir Baloch died of wounds, said Inspector Inayatullah Marwat, SHO of Mominabad police station.Both the victims were members of the PPPs youth wing. In Ranchore Line, a Sunni Tehreek worker was shot dead by armed men riding a motorcycle.The armed men fired multiple shots at Saeed. Four passersby, including a woman, were injured.Earlier in the day, a senior member of the MQM and former naib nazim of SITE Town was gunned down, yards away from his home in Orangi Town.In his mid-40s, Saeed Badshah Khan was ambushed by two men on a motorbike in Farid Colony near Baloch Para of Orangi Town outside his home.In Surjani Town, a 45-year-old man was shot dead in the evening. Police said that unknown men shot at a group of people outside a roadside tea stall in Section L-1. The victim, identified as Ziarat Khan, was hit by three bullets.
