KARACHI: Worry ripples throughout the metropolis and the perpetrator stays at massive, a day after a contemporary wave of knife assaults left 5 girls injured inside a span of mere three hours in several elements of the town.
Thriller continues to encompass the attacker, who has managed to evade seize even after 14 knife assaults prior to now 9 days. The assaults on girls had been, at first, restricted to the Gulistan-e-Jauhar space however unfold to Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Dalmia and different localities on Wednesday, spreading a renewed wave of terror throughout Karachiites.
Investigative authorities stay baffled concerning the id and motive of the attacker. Some officers contend the assailant is ‘mentally disturbed’ whereas some imagine the attacker is a part of an organised group.
The most recent assault came about at Gulshan Chowrangi on Wednesday, during which a 12-year-old woman was assaulted with a knife.
Later the identical day, the attacker first focused a girl within the metropolis’s Gulshan-e-Jamal space, adopted by one other assault close to Dalmia street, police mentioned.
Inside an hour of the 2 assaults, one other lady — a scholar of Federal Urdu College of Arts Science and Expertise — was attacked in NIPA Chowrangi neighborhood.
Over the following couple of hours, the assailant stabbed a 13-year-old woman in Gulshan-e-Iqbal space.
Some similarities have been observed throughout all of the incidents: the attacker reportedly assaults along with his left hand utilizing a pointy object, wears a helmet and rides a crimson motorbike.
Karachi Police launched photos and CCTV footage of the suspect final week, whereby the assailant will be seen using a bike moments earlier than attacking one of many victims.
“The suspect seems to be a skinny man, aged 20-29,” DIG East Sultan Khawaja mentioned, including that “he seems to be 5 ft, 7-9 inches tall” and normally rides a crimson motorbike.
Following the renewed spate of assaults, Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah slammed the police for failing to arrest the suspect and directed IG Police to arrest the attacker instantly.
Pakistan Peoples Social gathering (PPP) chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari additionally took discover of the knife assaults on girls and ordered speedy arrest of the culprits concerned.
“PPP won’t tolerate [these] assaults on harmless girls. These terrorists are difficult our nation by attacking our girls,” he mentioned in a press release.
The PPP chairman additionally requested the judiciary to direct the police to make sure safety of ladies.
