KARACHI, Oct 4: A cloth merchant was shot dead and his son wounded in a suspected targeted attack on Shahra-i-Quaideen near Allahwali traffic intersection on Friday evening.
Police said Azhar Abbas, 50, and his son, Aun Ali, 28, were going home by a rickshaw after closing their shop at Tariq Road when two gunmen on a motorcycle intercepted them, fired at them and fled, leaving them in injured.
They were taken to the Jinnah Post-graduate Medical Centre where Mr Abbas was pronounced dead.
ASP Akhter Farooq suspected it was a targeted attack as the assailants had not tried to loot the two men.
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