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not available, when I contacted again, I got the same reply, and on the third
occasion, I was told that he had gone on leave.
The second witness examined was Kamran Mansur, 32, police reporter of
English daily, The News, who said he received the information about the
firing incident at Clifton at 8:40 pm and within 10 minutes, after verifying the
information; he was there on the scene of the incident.
He said he was stopped by the rangers at Schon Circle and he stopped his
vehicle there and walked the rest of the distance.
Q: What did you see?
A: I saw five dead men lying on the road in different postures and three
private vehicles, two jeeps and one Hi-roof vehicle, besides three police
vehicles.
Q: When there was darkness how did you see the dead and which vehicles
were there?
A: In the light of the headlights of the police vehicles.
Q: Where were the dead and the injured lying and in what condition?
A: Four were lying on the footpath and the other two were shifted from the
road to the footpath in my presence. There were not many policemen on the
scene and I cannot say that the two policemen were guards at the DIG's
House. Of the six injured, I saw Mir Murtaza was one of them.
Q: Were the injured shifted in your presence to hospital?
A: Yes. Two of the injured were shifted to hospital, and four policemen lifted
Mir Murtaza and put him on a mobile and took him to hospital. A policeman
was also seated in the front seat.
Q: What did you do next?
A: I immediately rushed to Mideast Medical Centre.
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