RAWALPINDI: A man was shot and killed as he left a mosque after offering a relative’s funeral prayers in Sadiqabad on Thursday.

Altaf Hussain, 40, lived in Kotha Kalan, Adiala Road, and was in Sadiqabad for the funeral.

Police said he had parked his car outside a shop and gone into the mosque, and when he returned a shopkeeper – who had already argued with him over a parking issue – began fighting with him and then pulled out a pistol and shot him, killing him on the spot.

Police said raids to arrest the suspected killer are underway, as he is still at large.

Published in Dawn, May 25th, 2018

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