KARACHI: An official of the Sindh Reserve Police, Base-II, was shot dead on Tuesday in the Qayyumabad area over what police described as personal enmity.

Korangi Industrial Area SHO Mithal Shar said the constable, Adil Hussain, 26, was killed by someone travelling with him in a car in Qayyumabad on a road leading to the Clifton beach. He quoted witnesses as saying that a young man and a girl fled from the car after attacking the policeman.

The constable died before any medical aid could be provided to him. The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where doctors said the victim sustained two gunshot wounds in his head and neck. It did not appear to be a case of targeted killing, the SHO said, adding that the police were investigating the exact motive for the killing.

Published in Dawn, June 18th, 2014