On Duty; Sanitary worker killed at his office

FAISALABAD: A Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) worker was shot dead at his office on Sunday night by unidentified assailants, police said. People’s Colony police said Waheed Masih, 55, a resident of Railway Colony, was at his office (Tanki No 1) when unidentified assailants came there and shot him dead. When other WASA workers came there on Monday morning, they found Masih lying dead. Police were called in and sent the body to Allied Hospital Faisalabad for postmortem examination. The People’s Colony SHO said a case had been registered. “It appears that he has been killed over a rivalry,” the officer said.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 22^nd, 2015.