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Pakistan: Firing inside Afghan consulate, official killed

| | Feb 06, 2017, at 10:51 pm
Karachi, Feb 6 (IBNS): An Afghanistani diplomat was killed when a security guard opened fire inside the Consulate General of the country located in Pakistan's Karachi city on Monday, media reports said.

The Consulate is located in Clifton area of the city.

The deceased person was identified as Zaki Addu.

According to reports, he was working as the third secretary at the consulate.

DIG South, Azad Khan was quoted as saying by Geo News that the guard, Hayat Ullah, who opened fire was also an Afghan national and used a sub-machine gun.

DIG South was quoted as saying by the Pakistani media's website that the guard had been arrested and the consulate had been cleared.

 

Image: Internet Wallpaper

 

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