Karachi - Former MQM leader along with two sons and a passer-by were gunned down within the Landhi Police Station precincts on Wednesday. According to the police, the incident took place at 36-B Landhi No 4 when four armed men riding two motorbikes, opened indiscriminate firing with sophisticated weapons at a shop. Resultantly, six persons sustained bullet injures and were rushed to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) where doctors pronounced the death of sixty-year-old MQM leader Haji Jalal and his sons Usman Jalal and Abdullah Jalal along with a passer-by Adnan Sohail. The remaining two, Ahad and Raja, are admitted with critical injuries. It is important to recall that Haji Jalal was elected as a councillor from Landhi 4 in 1987 and was a renowned leader of the MQM. Jalal was detained in the Central Jail Karachi for several years in connection with Major Kaleem case. After the killings, tension gripped the whole Landhi town area where enraged people came out on the roads and started protest while aerial firing in various areas in the city was also reported. Heavy contingents of police and Rangers have reached the locality to maintain law and order situation. Police has termed the incident as a part of going on target-killings of political workers.