Inspector shot dead

Published June 15, 2005

KARACHI, June 14: A police inspector was killed and his three friends were injured when some motorcyclists opened fire on them in the Boulton Market area late on Tuesday night, police said. While Inspector Mohammad Sarwar, 40, was chatting with his friends Manzoor, Arif and Abdul Rehman on a footpath behind the Memon Masjid, they were fired upon by three people riding a motorcycle.

They were rushed to the Civil Hospital where the inspector, who worked in the prosecution branch of the district west, was declared dead, and those injured were provided medical care.

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