KARACHI, Nov 23: A seminary student was killed and his two fellows were wounded in an armed attack on their motorbike near the Malir Halt bus stop, police said.

They said three students — Muhammad Adnan, Hamid Zaman and Shahidullah —of Madrassah Ahsan-ul-Uloom in Gulshan-i-Iqbal were returning home on a motorbike when they came under attack.“Two men chasing them on a motorbike fired shots at them when they reached a place between the Malir Halt and Kala Board bus stops,” said Inspector Aftab Rind, the SHO of the Saudabad police station. “All three students sustained bullet wounds and were first shifted to a nearby private hospital, but later were moved to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where Hamid Zaman died.”

He said the victims were residents of the Quaidabad area and had been associated with the Madrassah Ahsan-ul-Uloom for the past more than five years. The attackers used a 9mm pistol, he added.

“The investigations are at a very early stage, but the attack appeared to be linked with the recent wave of killings being carried out sectarian grounds,” said Inspector Rind.

A spokesman for the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jammat condemned the attack on the seminary students.

“The victims were Dora-i-Hadees students and the attack shows that even students are not being spared. We strongly condemn the incident and demand that the government expedite the process to investigate the Rawalpindi violence.”

ASI shot dead

A police officer was gunned down near Baloch Colony on Saturday, officials said.

They said gunmen on a motorbike fired at the 50-year-old ASI, Jamaldin, when he was going for prayers near an overhead bridge.

“He was crossing the road when fired upon,” said an official at the Tipu Sultan police station. “He sustained two bullet wounds each in the neck and the head and died on the spot. The body was later moved to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.”

He said the victim was associated with the Tipu Sultan police station and lived in Federal B Area. The victim’s colleagues and family were not aware of his enmity with any group or individual.

“The investigators are not sure yet about the exact motive for the killing but suspected the incident as part of the ongoing trend in which policemen are being targeted across the city,” he said.

Tortured body found

The body of a young man with multiple torture wounds was found in the Docks police station area. An official said the victim, who remained unidentified, was found dead along Mauripur Road.

“There was no bullet wound but the wounds of severe torture were visible,” he said. “The victim, wearing shalwar kameez, seemed to be in his late 20s or early 30s. The body was shifted to the Edhi morgue for want of identification after medico-legal formalities at the Civil Hospital Karachi.”