At least four dead after an armed attack on the office of the Pakistani Police chief in Karachi

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At least four people have died and 19 have been injured this Friday after several armed men opened fire at the office of the Police Headquarters in the Pakistani city of Karachi, in the south of the country.

The spokesman for the Department of Health of the province of Sind, Mehar Khursheed, has indicated that at least four people have died, including two police officers and a civilian, while at least 19 have been injured, according to the newspaper ‘Dawn’.

The shooting occurred around 7:10 am (local time) near the Saddar Police station, on Sharea Faisal boulevard. A total of three armed attackers have started shooting after getting out of a Toyota Corolla car.

The Police have subsequently reported that the three attackers have died, one of whom blew himself up on the fourth floor of one of the buildings, while the other two have been killed by the security forces during the operation, which has forced the deployment of several units. and cordon off the area.

The chief minister of Sindh province, Murad Alí Shá, had earlier called for a greater police deployment. “I want the perpetrators to be arrested,” he said before pointing out that it was an “unacceptable” attack.

The attack was subsequently claimed, as reported by ‘Dawn’, by the armed group Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), known as the Pakistani Taliban, although they differ from the Afghan Taliban in organizational matters.

The TTP, however, follows the same rigorous interpretation of Sunni Islam, bringing together more than a dozen Islamist militant groups operating in Pakistan, where they have killed some 70,000 people in two decades of violence.