KARACHI: An investigation officer of the National Accountability Bureau, Sindh, and a boy were gunned down in Sharfabad area on Saturday night, police said.

New Town SHO Inam Husain Junejo said DSP Agha Jamil was having dinner at a restaurant when armed men on a bike opened fire, leaving him and a woman and her 10-year-old son, Faizan, injured.

The NAB officer and the boy both died in hospital.

NAB spokesperson Qudsia Kadri told Dawn that Agha Jamil had come to the bureau from the police department on deputation around one-and-a-half years ago.

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