Three transgender women were shot and killed on the outskirts of Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi, this weekend, local police confirmed on Monday.
The victims, whose bodies were found on a roadside on Sunday, appeared to have been shot at close range, and were later buried in a local graveyard.
Ordering a probe into the shooting, Murad Ali Shah, chief minister of Pakistan’s southeastern Sindh province, said “transgender [people] are an oppressed section of society,” adding: “We must all give them dignity and respect.”
