Karachi: A Pakistani news anchor was shot dead on Tuesday, police said.
Mureed Abbas, who worked for Bol News channel, was gunned down during a fight over a personal dispute in Karachi’s Khayaban-e-Bukhari area on Tuesday night, police said, citing initial details.
DIG South Sharjeel Kharal said that friends of the deceased informed the police that he had a monetary dispute with someone whose identity police had withheld.
He added that a friend of the anchorperson, Khizar Hayat, also received two bullets in the same incident. Hayat was shifted to a private hospital but he succumbed to his wounds.
The anchorperson sustained multiple bullet wounds on chest and abdomen. (PTI)
