Doctor shot dead in targeted attack on Karachi's outskirts.

KARACHI -- A man, said to be a doctor having clinic on the outskirts of the meAtropolis, was shot dead in what appeared to be an incident of tarAgeted killing on Sunday.

Gadap City SHO Zulfiqar Arain said that Muhammad Haroon left his home in Qasim Goth near UsAmania Restaurant on a motorbike for his 'clinic'. He was about to park his motorbike outside the 'clinic' when a car hit him. As he fell, two unknown occupants of the four-wheeler opened indisAcriminate fire and escaped.

He suffered four bullet wounds and was taken to the Abbasi ShaAheed Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead. He was in his mid-40s.

Investigators collected five spent bullet casings from the crime scene. The victim originally hailed from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The area SHO said that prelimiAnary investigations suggested that the victim was not a qualified docAtor, but a quack. Malir SSP Irfan Bahadur told media the murder was being probed from different aspects including personal enmity.

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