Pakistan: Dead and Injured in Karachi Protests over Khamenei's Assassination

SadaNews - At least nine people were killed and twenty others injured, most of them by gunfire, on Sunday during a demonstration outside the U.S. consulate in Karachi, protesting the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the American and Israeli attack on Iran.

Mohammad Amin, a spokesperson for the Edhi Foundation, reported the transfer of at least nine bodies to Karachi hospitals after hundreds attempted to storm the consulate in protest against the strikes.

Hundreds of protesters tried to storm the U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan, on Sunday, in protest against the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei in the American-Israeli attack on Iran on Saturday.

A group of young men climbed the main gate leading to the front yard of the building, where they broke some windows. The police responded by firing tear gas at the protesters to disperse the demonstration, according to a reporter from Agence France-Presse.

A witness told Reuters that Pakistani police fired tear gas on Sunday to disperse protesters outside the U.S. consulate in Karachi in the southern part of the country, following the announcement of the assassination in American and Israeli strikes.