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PSP Activist Killed
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Pakistan: Unknown attackers shot dead Pak Sarzameen Party activist

| @indiablooms | Feb 12, 2022, at 03:23 am

Karachi, Pakistan: Unknown people attacked and killed an activist of the Pak Sarzameen Party (PSP) in Pakistan's North Karachi on Thursday.

The attack on the car of the activist left his eight-year-old son wounded.

The Khwaja Ajmer Nagri police told The Dawn that the suspects riding motorcycles opened fire on the car near Peela School in Sector-5-B/3 and sped away.

They said the activist, Salman Wakeel, aged 35-40, and his son, Saboor, 8, were wounded and rushed to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where doctors pronounced Salman dead.

Saboor was also admitted to the hospital for treatment.

PSP spokesperson Asiya was quoted as saying by Dawn News that Salman received multiple bullets while Saboor suffered two bullets on his legs.

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