Khar: A worker of Awami National Party was killed in an attack by unknown assailants in Khar tehsil here on Sunday.
Residents and Rescue 1122 officials said the incident occurred on the main Khar-Nawagai Road in the Khazana area within the jurisdiction of Lowi Sam police station.
They told Dawn that Mir Azam Khan, 45, was heading to his home in the Khazana Dag area when unknown assailants opened fire on him, leaving him critically injured.
Amjad Khan, district emergency officer of Rescue 1122, said the injured was shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital, Khar, where the doctors pronounced him dead upon arrival at the hospital’s emergency.