KARACHI, July 28: A 52-year-old Afghan national was killed and his son was wounded in an ambush near Al-Asif Square in Sohrab Goth.

Police said the victim and his son were going back to Afghanistan when they were attacked near a bus stop. The deceased, identified as Abdullah Dad Khel, and his injured son, Shahzad Dad Khel, were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

Hospital sources said Abdullah, who had received two bullets in his upper torso, was brought dead to the hospital. However, they said, the condition of his son, who sustained a bullet in his right ribcage, was improving.

Police said the incident was motivated by personal enmity as the injured man named the suspects in the FIR.