KARACHI: Gunmen killed an Afghan national and injured two others in Pirabad here on Monday, police said.

Qutubuddin and two of his neighbours were chatting in a street in Islamia Colony-1 when they came under fire.

They were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where doctors pronounced Qutubuddin dead.

Nawab and Karim were admitted.

The deceased was an Afghan national and merchant of second-hand clothes.

Published in Dawn, July 22nd , 2014