Two employees of a Turkish waste management firm Albayrack were shot at in the wee hours of Friday near Data Ganj Baksh Road in Rawalpindi, police said.

Station House Officer of Sadiq Abad police station Raja Tahir told DawnNews that the incident took place at 5.30am, while the workers were sweeping the road. The 40-year-old Karamat was killed from a gunshot wound to his neck while Sagheer, 38, who was shot four times in his upper body, was still in critical condition.

According to eyewitnesses, two unidentified men drove by on a motorbike, firing indiscriminately, which led the bystanders to run for cover, including a third employee of Albayrack who was present on the scene.

Karamat's body was shifted to District Headquarters Hospital for an autopsy and was later taken to his family home Sheikhupura. The autopsy report has not been released. Sagheer has been admitted in Benazir Hospital.

Police have termed the murders as targeted killing and claimed that the attack seems pre-planned.

A similar incident had taken place in June in the same area, where another employee of Albayrack, Aashir Asif was murdered by unknown men in the early hours of the morning. All of the employees that were shot belonged to the Christian community.

Albayrack employees said that none of the company officials visited the injured workers for hours after the incident.

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