ISLAMABAD, clan 25 Kyodo (EDS: U...

ISLAMABAD, clan 25 Kyodo

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Seven folks were killed and one injured by means of gunmen who attacked a Christian charitable organization in a busy commercial area in Karachi in succession Wednesday, police and hospital sources said.

The brace gunmen entered the office of Adal aur Insaf (equity and justice) forward the third floor of the 13-story Rimpa building onward busy M.A. Jinnah road in the port city and ball all those present, according to Tariq Jamil, the city's police factor chief.

Jamil said tribe in the office were bullet one-by-one in the head with pistols after being tied and having their cavity between the jawss taped shut. All the victims were Pakistani Christians, he added.

He said the gunmen escaped.

A Christian community leader in Islamabad said the charity organization received foreign aid and gazeed after the welfare of the Christian community in Pakistan.

It reportedly also published a monthly magazine, in which a certain articles dealt with Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws.

The attack was common of a series that have occurr against Christians in Pakistan this year.

In March, a grenade attack forward a Protestant church in Islamabad killed five clan including the wife and daughter of an American diplomat

upon Aug. 5, six people were killed through two gunmen who burst into a Christian exercise in the town of Murree about 40 kilometers east of the capital.

upon Aug. 9, four Pakistani nourish at the breasts and an attacker were killed in an attack in succession a Christian hospital in the town of Taxila, about 25 km west of the capital, in which three attackers casted two grenades at worshipers coming on the outside of a chapel.

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