KARACHI: The bodies of six men with their throats slit have been found near a holy place on the outskirts of Pakistan’s largest city Karachi, police said Tuesday.
The corpses were lying near the grave of Ayub Shah Bukhari Three of the dead worked at the same place while the others were frequent visitors.
Police said a note reading “Stop visiting shrines — from the Pakistani Taliban” was found at the scene along with a bloodstained knife.
In one of the bloodiest episodes, at least 50 people were killed in April 2011 in a suicide attack on a shrine in the city of Dera Ghazi Khan.
But senior police officer Amir Farooqi voiced caution over the note, said that he would not draw any conclusions until further investigation.
Police have detained some suspects and sent the bloodstained knife for forensic tests.
Karachi, Pakistan’s economic hub, has been plagued for years by ethnic, political, sectarian and criminal violence.
The corpses were lying near the grave of Ayub Shah Bukhari Three of the dead worked at the same place while the others were frequent visitors.
Police said a note reading “Stop visiting shrines — from the Pakistani Taliban” was found at the scene along with a bloodstained knife.
In one of the bloodiest episodes, at least 50 people were killed in April 2011 in a suicide attack on a shrine in the city of Dera Ghazi Khan.
But senior police officer Amir Farooqi voiced caution over the note, said that he would not draw any conclusions until further investigation.
Police have detained some suspects and sent the bloodstained knife for forensic tests.
Karachi, Pakistan’s economic hub, has been plagued for years by ethnic, political, sectarian and criminal violence.
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