Pakistani police said today that 4 gunmen attacked the stock exchange building in the southern city of Karachi, but the security forces quickly killed them all, and no one has claimed responsibility for the attack until now.
Karachi police chief Ghulam Nabi Memon - Reuters Agency - stated that the gunmen attacked the building with grenades and rifles after they came in a car, and the agency noted that the attackers initially threw a hand grenade, then opened fire on a security site outside the stock exchange building, before the police returned and killed all The attackers.
The Pakistani army said that two other people were killed in the attack, and that security forces were combing the area in search of other attackers, and Al-Jazeera correspondent in Pakistan said that 4 police forces were also wounded.
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Stock market officials
"The shooting has stopped for the time being," a Stock Exchange official told France Press.
Video clips posted by activists on the media showed the moment the police entered to liquidate the attackers and evacuate the building.
The stock exchange building is located in a highly guarded area in the largest city of Pakistan and its financial capital, and the region includes the main offices of several private banks.
The attack on the stock exchange comes 10 days after a bomb was launched on a waiting line in front of a social assistance office, killing one person and wounding 8 others. No group has claimed responsibility for this attack. After a decade that witnessed near-daily attacks, violence in Pakistan has declined dramatically, and attacks have become an exception.