Two persons were injured when four armed men opened indiscriminate firing at the office of a leading media group in Pakistan's Karachi city, police said.
Atleast 22 rounds were fired at the building. The injured guard and woman were shifted to a nearby hospital for treatment.
Four motorcycles-borne men, all wearing helmets, had shown up outside the main office building of the Express media group in Karachi yesterday. Two of them got down and opened indiscriminate firing, police said.
"A woman and a guard were injured in the firing they fired atleast 20 to 22 rounds," a police official said.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and President Asif Ali Zardari took notice of the incident and demanded immediate report on the attack at the Express Media office. They also hoped for speedy recovery of the injured.
A spokesman for the media group said the attack instilled fear and tension among the workers.
"We demand a full investigation into this matter and why the police arrived 40 minutes after the incident," he said.
