Currency exchange dealer, guard gunned down

Author: inp

Some unidentified persons shot dead a currency exchange owner and a security guard in Islamabad’s F-8 sector on Saturday.

Police said the suspects fled when the men accompanying the deceased opened fire at them.

In yet another incident of shooting reported from the federal capital, a man was killed near the bustling I-8 business center. Eyewitnesses reported that the attackers fired at the man, who was sitting in his vehicle for about five minutes.

The victim tried to take cover in a nearby under-construction building, the witnesses said, adding that the attackers followed him inside, continued shooting, and then fled the scene in a double-cabin truck.

Witnesses further said that the victim’s vehicle crashed into a tree as he tried to evade the attackers.

However, a companion of the victim reportedly survived the attack and fled from the scene, they explained.

Police, which identified the deceased as Qamar Raja from Mandi Bahauddin, said that initial reports suggested that personal enmity might be behind the murder.

The Force said it had set up checkpoints to apprehend the fleeing suspects and was also in contact with the victim’s family.

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