KOHAT, June 4: Two unidentified motorcyclists shot dead a woman employee of Kohat commissioner office in Bilitang on Rawalpindi Road on Monday.  

Sources said that 30-year-old Saima Asad was standing near the road to reach her office when two armed motorcyclists opened firing on her. She was killed on the spot.

The woman official received three bullets that proved fatal, sources said. They said that she was taken to KDA hospital where doctors pronounced her dead.

Sources said that the incident occurred around 7:45am in the morning. The assailants managed to escape after committing the crime, they added.

District Police Officer Mubarek Zeb Khan told Dawn that it seemed a case of old enmity but anything could not be said with certainty. To a question about involvement of militants in the case, he said that further investigations would reveal who was behind the murder.

He said that the victim was working as assistant and telephone operator at the commissioner office. The DPO said that several people were questioned but nobody was arrested.

Asadullah, the father of Saima, did not nominate anyone in the FIR, saying he could not point finger at anyone at the moment. The deceased was laid to rest at her ancestral graveyard.