Sectarian attack? Bank manager shot dead in Peshawar
Sardar Waqarul Hassan was going towards the car park after leaving his office on Tuesday evening when he was shot.
The bank manager was walking to his car in the car park when he was gunned down. PHOTO: FILE
Sardar Waqarul Hassan, manager of Habib Bank Limited-Abresham Garan branch, had left the branch to leave for home. As he headed towards the car park on Tuesday evening, unidentified attackers opened fire at him. The gun attack killed him on the spot.
The attackers managed to escape without retaliation.
“He was a resident of Gulbahar and belonged to the Shia sect. Without any doubt, it was an incident of target killing,” said a police official from the Kabuli Police Station.
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