Pakistan, March 2 -- Ten people died in Karachi on Sunday, a hospital official said, after protesters clashed with law enforcement personnel near the US Consulate on Mai Kolachi Road, as protests erupted countrywide against the US-Israeli attacks on Iran.

The protests followed the assassination of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Saturday's coordinated US-Israeli airstrikes on Tehran.

The situation warranted Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi to issue an appeal, urging people to remain peaceful.

Earlier in Karachi, law enforcement personnel resorted to teargas shelling and baton-charge to control the situation at the US Consulate in Karachi.

According to a statement by Police Surgeon Dr Summaiya Syed, eight bodies were bro...