QUETTA: Unidentified militants shot dead a senior police official in Quetta on Monday. Former SHO Malik Mushtaq, who was associated with National Accountability Bureau (NAB), was offering evening prayers in a mosque in Chaman Patak when three unidentified assailants entered it and opened fire on him, police sources said. “Mushtaq died on the spot after receiving several bullets in his chest,” sources added. Eyewitnesses said Mushtaq was performing the last prostration of his prayer when he was targeted. Police cordoned off the area, while the deceased was shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta. “The victim received as many as five bullets in his upper torso, which is the cause of his death,” hospital sources said. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.