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Gunmen open fire on private television station

KARACHI - Gunmen opened fire on a local television station in Pakistan’s largest city, injuring a guard and an employee, police and TV officials said late Monday evening. “Four men on two motorcycles attacked our station in Karachi with automatic guns,” Rashid Mehmood, local Aaj News TV’s director of news told AFP. “They also damaged some cars and fled,” he said, adding that the guard’s injuries were serious.
Police official Asghar Ali confirmed the report. “The two injured men have been shifted to a local hospital and we are on the lookout for the culprits of the attack,” he said. Mehmood said there had been no threats made from any militant group to the television station.

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