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ABBOTABAD: Unidentified assailants gunned down an officer of the Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO) in Abbottabad, police told on Sunday.
Cantonment Police Station SHO Ghafoor Khan said that Yousuf Hussain, a resident of Parachinar, was serving in PESCO as a deputy manager of operations in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Hussain had returned to Mohallah Sheikhul Bandi from Fata to spend a three days with his family. Hussain had lived in the neighbourhood for a few years after his posting in Abbottabad.
At around 7:45 pm on Saturday evening, after parking his car in the garage, Hussain was heading home on foot when unidentified assailants pulled up alongside him and shot him dead using a pistol.
He received a bullet in his head and died on the spot, SHO Khan and doctors confirmed.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 12th, 2016.
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