KARACHI: Another police official was shot dead in a Korangi neighbourhood on Monday, police said They added that two assailants riding a motorbike targeted Assistant Sub-Inspector Mohammed Yusuf Khan, 45, who was wearing police uniform, as soon as he left his residence in Zia Colony on a motorbike.

He sustained multiple bullet wounds and was taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where doctors declared him dead on arrival.

SSP-Korangi Nazeed Ahmed Mirbahar said that it was not yet clear whether he was targeted as a result of an ongoing operation against criminals. It would be ascertained after a thorough probe, he added.

However, a Korangi police officer, who wished not to be named, said that the ASI’s murder may be an outcome of some recent arrests of suspected hit men in the area.

The victim was posted in the investigation wing of the Korangi police.

Only on Saturday, another ASI, Taj Mohammed, 40, was gunned down in Mominabad while returning from his work. So far, 96 policemen have been killed in the metropolis this year — most of them were targeted by in district west of the city.

Published in Dawn, July 15th, 2014