City remained tense on the second day of mourning for those killed in the bomb blasts in welcome procession of Pakistan Peoples Party Chairperson Benazir Bhutto on Thursday night. Meanwhile, attendance in offices and other establishments was this as public transport was missing on the city road since morning.
Besides owners of private vehicles, including motorcyclists, were seen running from pillar to in search fuels as most of the petrol pumps were. Despite a daylong "red alert" and a beefed up security by the Sindh government by deploying thousands of personnel of law-enforcement agencies (LEAs), incidents of disturbance were also reported in different parts of the city.
Chakiwara of Lyari Town was the worst affected area where incidents of disturbance and agitation were reported throughout the day. Besides, there were reports of sniper firing incidents in various parts of the city. No less than 14 persons sustained bullet injuries in cross firing. Of them 11 persons were rushed to nearby hospitals for medical treatment.
Most of the firing incidents were reported from Thana Sukhan, Zafar Town, M.A Jinnah Road, Baldia, Malir, Garden, Ranchoor Lane and Site areas, where angry mobs also pelted stones on vehicles.
The names of injured persons who were shifted to Civil Hospital from different areas of the city are Ramzan Ahmed, Amjad Khan, Noman, Allah Bachayo, Fareed, Wajeeh, Jameel (25), Raheem (24), Anas (35), Hamza (22), Jaffer (12), Shabbir (36), Sabir (36), Sabir (16), Ashraf (24), Arshad (26), Jawed (24) and Francis. Protesting mobs, chanting anti-government slogans and demanding early arrest of terrorists, took to the street and blocked the main Jahangir Road, including Teen Hatti.
Besides, Hassan Square, Liaquatabad, North Karachi, Landhi, Korangi, Agrataj, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Sohrab Goth, Nazimabad, Saddar, I I Chundrigar Road, North Karachi, Nagan Chowrangi, Nazimabad and Federal "B" Area suffered badly as the protestors blocked the roads by setting ablaze tyres.
Meanwhile, Rizwan Edhi of Edhi Welfare Trust told Business Recorder: "We have received 109 bodies during the last two days. Of them 20 were without any identification. While 78 bodies have been handed over to their relatives, 31 bodies and pieces of four bodies are still in our morgue," he said. He said: "We have taken photographs of unidentified bodies and a list of such bodies is displayed outside the morgue, while copy of it is sent to Bilawal House."