KARACHI, June 17 A Rangers personnel was gunned down in the Garden area on Thursday when he was leaving for work, police and Rangers officials said.

The Rangers' Naib clerk Sohail Abbas was targeted near his residence early in the morning.

“Sohail Abbas, wearing shalwar-kameez, had just left home when a man gunned him down,” said a spokesman for the Rangers. “The police concerned are investigating the case while the body of the victim has been sent to his hometown in Punjab.”

An official at the police station said Sohail suffered three bullet wounds in the chest and the waist and died on the spot.

His body was later shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi for medico-legal formalities, he added.

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