Afghan national killed in Karachi

Published July 22, 2014
The deceased was an Afghan national and merchant of second-hand clothes.—File photo
The deceased was an Afghan national and merchant of second-hand clothes.—File photo

KARACHI: Gunmen killed an Afghan national and injured two others in Pirabad here on Monday, police said.

Qutubuddin and two of his neighbours were chatting in a street in Islamia Colony-1 when they came under fire.

They were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors pronounced Qutubuddin dead.

Nawab and Karim were admitted.

The deceased was an Afghan national and merchant of second-hand clothes.

Published in Dawn, July 22nd , 2014

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