Targeted killings: Three shot dead in Karachi

Police inspector, seminary student and labourer were gunned down in 3 separate acts of targeted killings on Saturday.

KARACHI: A police inspector, seminary student and a labourer were gunned down in three separate acts of targetted killings on Saturday. An assistant sub-inspector of police (ASI) was shot dead near Baloch Colony. Police officials said two armed men riding a motorcycle targeted the victim when he was walking out from a mosque. A seminary student was shot dead and two others wounded when four armed men opened fire at them. In another incident, a labourer was shot dead. The deceased was apparently killed over personal enmity, according to police officials.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 24^th, 2013.