KARACHI: A police officer was gunned down in Orangi Town in a targeted attack on Monday evening, officials said.

Orangi Town SP Chaudhry Asad Ali said that two armed men targeted Inspector Mohammed Iqbal, 40, at a hardware shop in MPR Colony.

He said the officer sustained two bullet wounds and was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.

The assailants used a 9mm pistol to carry out the shooting, the police said.

They added that the victim was a resident of MPR Colony. He was posted in the investigation wing of the district west police.

The Orangi SP said that some days back the inspector and certain local people had a brawl in the area. However, he added that investigation was still under way.

With the fresh killing, the number of policemen gunned down in the city during the first fortnight of this year rose to six.

Earlier, two policemen were shot dead in an attack on a police mobile in Orangi Town. Two other policemen deputed for the security of an Awami National Party leader were killed in an attack in Baldia Town. The fifth victim was gunned down by suspected land grabbers in the Sachal area.

Woman among three killed in Lyari

Three people, including a young woman, were shot dead in parts of Lyari on Monday, police said.

The Baghdadi police said that Gulshan Bibi, 25, was killed by unknown person in the Shah Beg Lane area.

The body was taken to the Civil Hospital Karachi where her relatives did not allow doctors to carry out a post-mortem examination.

She was a resident of Nayabad, Kalri. It appeared that she was killed on suspicion of being a police ‘informer’, said Baghdadi SHO Aslam Dahiri. He said that the victim was a close relative of alleged Lyari gangster Zubair alias Wehshi, who was recently killed in an alleged encounter.

The police said the killers did not take away her jewellery.

In the Chakiwara area, two unidentified young men were shot dead.

The police said that the bodies were shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi for medico-legal formalities.

There was a dispute between the Kalakot and Napier police stations over jurisdiction.

Lyari SP Shahnawaz said that the victims were in their early-twenties.

They were passing through the Khaliq Juma Hall when two gunmen targeted them from behind and fled.

The young men died before any medical aid could be provided to them, the SP said, adding that the double murder might have linked with the ongoing infighting between rival gangs in Lyari.

Man gunned down

A young man was shot dead in Gulshan-i-Maymar on Monday, police said.

They said that Abdul Malik, 30, was killed inside his home in Afghan Basti.

Area SHO Samad Khan said that the victim’s relatives were trying to bury him but the police got information about the murder and they reached there to stop the burial.

The police took the body in their custody and sent it for a post-mortem examination at the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. Doctors said that a single bullet hit him in the temple. The SHO said that his wife, Fatima, had allegedly killed him and escaped.