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One killed, 45 injured in aerial firing

KARACHI/QUETTA - Aerial firing on the occasion of World Cup semi-final clash between Pakistan and India left over 45 people including children wounded here in this mega City.

The City gave a deserted look as commercial activities were almost suspended due to the match. Fans across the City resorted to aerial firing on each boundary got by Pakistani team which resulted in bullet wounds to several persons.There were hundreds of wide screens displayed across the City where thousands of people watched the match. Heavy contingents of law-enforcers were seen across the City especially at each open cinema. At least 14 injured were brought to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital,7 to Civil Hospital, Karachi, 10 to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and some others were brought to the Qatar Hospital.

Some of them were said to be in critical condition.
The areas where mostly people were injured included Nazimabad, Yousuf Plaza, Liaquatabad, Kalri, Chakiwara, Orangi Town, Qasba Colony, Bukhari Colony, North Nazimabad and North Karachi.
Meanwhile, mixed reaction was witnessed in Quetta after India beat Pakistan by 29 runs in the World Cup semi-final at Mohali on Wednesday.

The cheers turned into mourning and the smiles faded away into tears of cricket lovers.

Some people also fired gunshots in the air to vent their anger in different parts of the City.

‘It is just a game we should not take it so seriously. Pakistani players played well thus we should encourage them instead of criticising them’, Zakira, a cricket lover said, adding, that we got off to good start, but then at regular intervals, we started losing two to three quick wickets.
 
Fools, I would say.

If this firing was done in remote parts of KP or Balochistan I could understand because the population density is very sparse.

But in Karachi, one of the most densely populated areas in Pakistan??.
 
I spoke with my uncle and he said some fellows (his co-workers) even brought gun to their offices for celebration later on lol and they were not uneducated - All of his co-workers are Telecom Engineers lol.
 
Aerial firing? You mean a fighter jet mistakenly opened fire on the ground below or what?

30 people injured in Pakistan due to stray gun shots

PTI | 11:03 AM,Mar 31,2011

Karachi, Mar 31 (PTI) Around 30 people including children were injured in firing incidents in the city during the World Cup semi-final between Pakistan and India. Police reported that the people were injured by stray gun shots which resulted because of celebratory firing indulged in different areas. "People resorted to aerial firing to celebrate an Indian wicket or to cheer a boundary in the Pakistan innings but stray bullets hit people around them including children who were taken to hospitals for treatment," police official Khan Bahadur said.

Not surprisingly as soon as the semi-final ended in defeat for Pakistan, the guns fell silent as plans to celebrate a Pakistan victory were canceled yesterday. In other parts of the country also the high tension match led to casualties. In Rawalpindi, a student took poisonous pills after being depressed by the defeat, while in Faisalabad a 65-year-old succumbed to a heart attack during the match.

30 people injured in Pakistan due to stray gun shots, IBN Live News
 
I was referring to suicides that the article mentioned that happened in Rawalpindi.

Oh....ok....I agree that we are a cricket crazy region. But suicides, I can never understand.

After all even if they play in the name of India, it is they who get the profits and the awards. Anyway............
 

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