ABBOTTABAD: Unidentified motorcyclists gunned down a man and his son in a targeted attack in Hassan Town on Kakul Road here on Friday.

Police quoted wife of the victim, Ghulam Mustafa Sherazi, as saying that she was present at the main gate of the house as her husband and son Waseem Sherazi drove out their car to go to a nearby imambargah for Friday prayers when two motorcyclists appeared on the scene and opened fire on them.

She said that her husband and son received multiple bullets and died on the spot. The motorcyclists escaped after the attack. She said that they belonged to Sahiwal district of Punjab and had been living in the area for the last 14 years. She said that they had no enmity with anyone.

When contacted, Abbottabad district police officer Mohammad Ali Gandapur said that it would be premature to call it a sectarian incident. He said that the police were working on different leads to ascertain facts and arrest the culprits.

The bodies were handed over to the family after autopsy at the DHQ hospital.

Published in Dawn, July 12th, 2014

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