from Aljazeera
Gunmen dressed in police uniforms killed a 10-year-old boy and a guard when they fired at an opposition politician in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, police said.
The attack on Friday took place in the central Buffer Zone district when Khawaja Izharul Hassan from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was hugging people after an Eid al-Adha prayer gathering.
Four others were wounded in the attack, as Hassan remained unharmed, senior police official Zulfiqar Larak told the AFP news agency.
“Unknown gunmen opened fire on Khawaja Izharul Hassan when he was meeting people after Eid prayers. His guard and a boy, about 10 years old, were killed while four others were including another guard were wounded in the firing,” Larak said.
Another senior police official, Pir Mohammad Shah, said one of the gunmen was also killed when Hassan’s second guard, who was also wounded in the attack, fired back.