RAWALPINDI: A sanitary worker was shot and killed and another injured by two motorcycle riders on Data Ganj Baksh Road in Sadiqabad on Friday in what appears to be a case of targeted killing.

Karamat Masih, 40, was cleaning the road and his colleague, 38-year-old Sagheer Masih was collecting garbage nearby when two men who were wearing masks started shooting at them. Karamat died on the spot while Sagheer sustained bullet injuries. He was taken to the Benazir Bhutto Hospital and according to doctors, he is out of danger.

Karamat’s body was taken to the District Headquarters Hospital for a post-mortem.

In the statement he recorded with the Sadiqabad police, Karamat’s brother Akram Masih said his brother worked as a sanitary worker for a company. He said the masked men first attacked his brother and then Sagheer.

Mohammad Aslam, the sub-inspector who is leading the investigation into the case, told Dawn it is too early to say whether this is a case of targeted killing and that the victims’ families have said they do not have any enmities.

Published in Dawn, August 19th, 2017