KARACHI: Police and Rangers carried out raids in Machar Colony and adjoining areas early Saturday detained at least 34 suspects in connection with the ruthless lynching of two telecom company employees a day earlier.

Three more accused of the incident in which two persons lynched to death, have been identified from detained suspects, police officials said. So far six accused of the incident have been arrested, officials added.

Those in custody are being questinoned to establish the sequence of confirm the involvement in the incident, according to officials.

The police had detained 16 suspects after the lynching incident at Karachi’s Machar Colony.

Three persons were arrested yesterday including an administrator of a mosque after Friday’s incident in which the two men were battered to death with bricks and stones. They were attacked following a rumour that the two individuals were child kidnappers.

Police said that eight suspects were identified with the help of available videos of the lynching incident. Police added that names, addresses and other information about eight suspects involved in hurling stones on the victims have been collected.

According to police, an eyewitness also identified the arrested men.

The families of the deceased employees received their bodies from Civil Hospital.

According to the relatives, the deceased persons will be laid to rest in their ancestral areas of Naushehro Feroze and Thatta.

The policeman said the employees who were trying to save their lives from the mob in the car were dragged down and tortured to death with the construction blocks.