KARACHI: Two young football players were shot dead in the city’s Jehangir Road-I area on Friday evening.
According to the Jamshed Quarters police, armed men on a motorbike opened fire on people sitting in a football stadium.
SP Akhtar Farooq said that Manzoor, 30, and Samiullah, 25, suffered critical injuries and were taken to the Civil Hospital where doctors declared them dead.
“Both victims were football players,” said the SP.
Manzoor was a drill instructor in a school.
Police found nine spent bullets fired from a 0.9mm pistol from the crime scene. The motive for the murder could not be ascertained immediately, said the officer.
Published in Dawn, September 5th, 2015
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