QUETTA: Unidentified gunmen ambushed a restaurant owner to death in Quetta, officials said on Saturday.
“Gunmen targeted Muhammad Hashmi Noorzai, a restaurant owner, when he was traveling in car from his home to Quetta city,” police said. “Gunmen ambushed the trader near Kuchlak Bypass in Buleli with indiscriminate fire, leaving him dead on the spot and fled from the scene,” officials said.
Police shifted the dead body to hospital. Investigators collected evidence from the crime scene and launched investigation of the targeted killing.
Muhammad Hashmi Noorzai was among the prominent businessmen of Quetta.
Last month police registered a case against three policemen in city after a young man in a car was killed in police firing after asked to stop.
Officials said the incident occurred in the town area of Quetta when a car did not stop despite signalled from a police mobile. Police then opened fire, and a young man in the car was killed.
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