KARACHI, May 14: A man was shot dead in the Shershah area on Saturday, police said.

They said that the victim, identified as 36-year-old Naeem Ashraf, was hit by a single bullet a few seconds after he got off a bus near Paracha Chowk within the remit of the SITE-B police station.

He was a resident of Nazimabad No 2 and had come to meet someone in the area.

“After getting off the bus he entered a street along the main road,” said DSP Malik Zahid Hussain, the area’s supervisory police officer.

“Witnesses said they heard a single gunshot which hit the man in the back.”

He was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where he died during treatment.

The victim was employed with a garments factory and also ran a small business as a supplier of raw material to different industrial units.

Investigators suspected that he was killed due to some personal enmity.

Ex-PN man gunned down

A retired official of the Pakistan Navy was gunned down inside his home in North Karachi on Saturday, police said.

They said that armed men stormed into the house of 48-year-old Asmat Ali in Sector 5-A-3, where he was living alone, and escaped after killing him.

The police said that the victim had a dispute with his family over a piece of land that had also led to his separation from his wife.

They said that the victim was father of five but had been living alone for the past few years. “The land dispute led to several clashes within the family and the killing appears to be an outcome of the same dispute,” said DSP Altaf Hussain.