Overview
- A Suzuki lost control and drove into security barricades and a tent outside an imambargah in DHA Phase 6, Karachi, on Sunday night, striking people near the entrance.
- More than a dozen worshippers, mostly women and children, were taken to hospitals and one minor girl later died from her injuries.
- Police seized the vehicle, detained the driver and two passengers and circulated CCTV footage timestamped about 9:26pm showing the car at high speed before impact.
- Authorities registered an FIR that includes terrorism and attempted-murder sections, transferred aspects of the inquiry to the Counter-Terrorism Department and impounded the car for forensic testing.
- Investigators say a brake-failure report is a lead but forensic analysis of the braking system, witness statements and suspects' interrogations will determine whether the crash was accidental or deliberate and could affect security measures for future religious gatherings.