KARACHI, Jan 17: A 45-year-old man was shot dead a few yards from his home in Lines Area on Monday, police said.

They added that Naseem alias Bhayya was sitting with a few friends in Jutland Line near Tonga stand when two men riding a motorbike pulled up close to them.

One of the riders carrying a pistol got off the motorbike and “fired multiple shots at Naseem before fleeing”, said an official at the Brigade police station.

“The victim suffered five gunshot wounds in the head, chest and abdomen and died on the spot,” the official said.

The body was later shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities.

The victim was a taxi driver and had four children, the police said.

While the police remained clueless about the motive and people behind the targeted killing, a spokesman for the Amir Khan-led faction of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM-H) claimed that the victim was their party worker and targeted due to his political association.

“We have lost seven workers to targeted killings over the last few weeks. The authorities have failed to protect the lives of our workers,” he added.