
Maulana Masood was in his car when four armed men on motorcycles approached and opened fire. Three bullets hit him in the head and chest. Massod succumbed to his injuries shortly after the incident.
An Express News correspondent said that his body has been taken to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a postmortem.
Forty-year-old Massod, who was the son-in-law of renowned cleric and head of Jamia Binoria Mufti Naeem, was also teacher at Karachi University. Jamia Binoria is one of the more notable Deobandi seminaries in Pakistan.
Later in the evening, funeral prayers of Masood was offered in Karachi, Express News reported.

Express News screengrab of the funeral prayers of Maulana Masood.
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