Militants attacked the stock exchange in the Pakistani city of Karachi on Monday, killing at least three people — two guards and a police officer, according to police. They launched the attack by opening fire at the entrance gate of the Pakistan Stock Exchange in the southern port city, the country's financial centre. Paramilitary soldiers arrive at the site of an attack at the Pakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi on Monday. (Akhtar Soomro/Reuters)Rizwan Ahmend, a police official at the scene, said that after opening fire, the gunmen entered the stock exchange grounds. The Karachi stock exchange is Pakistan's largest and oldest stock exchange, incorporated today with the exchanges in Islamabad and Lahore.
Source: CBC News June 29, 2020 06:27 UTC