RAWALPINDI, Dec 2: Relatives and friends of a man, who was shot dead here on Sunday morning, held a protest demonstration against the police for its failure to arrest the killers.

Abdul Rashid, 43, who ran a motor-silencer repair shop at G-9 Market, was going to a market near his house at Gowalmandi to buy milk at 8.45am when two motorbike riders shot him.

Nadia Rashid, the wife of the deceased, in her complaint to the police said shortly after her husband left the house, she was informed that he had been shot and injured in the street. The injured was taken to the District Headquarters Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Hayat Khan, a police sub-inspector who is leading the investigation into the murder case, said the man was targeted a few hundred metres from a police post. He said the motive behind the killing would be ascertained after completion of the investigation.

The deceased is survived by his five-year-old daughter, wife and mother.

Later in the afternoon, the relatives and friends of the victim gathered at Taj Company Chowk on Liaquat Road and blocked it.

Eyewitnesses said the protesters demanded that the city police officer should trace the killers and bring them to justice.

Later, they dispersed when senior police officers assured them that the killers would be arrested very soon.

Meanwhile, an 85-year-old man was burnt alive after he fell on a gas stove (burner) early Sunday.

The City police said Lala Abdul Aziz from Jammu and Kashmir worked as a domestic servant and lived in a warehouse. He got up early Saturday night and sat around the gas burner. “He might have fallen asleep and trapped in the fire,” said Abdul Latif, a police sub-inspector.

The incident came to light after the watchman of the warehouse found the old man burnt beyond recognition. Later, the watchman informed the owner of the godown who called the police.