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KARACHI: Police on Monday registered a terrorism case against the driver of a van that crashed into a tent of mourners outside an imambargah in Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority (DHA) a day earlier.
Three of the driver’s companions were also named in the first information report (FIR) registered on the complaint of the imambargah’s security head.
According to police, at around 9.30pm on Sunday night, a Suzuki pick-up had rammed into a tent outside the imambargah where mourners were attending a Muharram majlis.
A teenage girl injured in the incident succumbed to her wounds today. Twenty-three others were injured in the incident, including the driver and his companions, who are under treatment at a hospital and have been taken into custody.
