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Pakistan: Hindu doctor shot dead

| | Aug 06, 2016, at 03:34 pm
Karachi, Aug 6 (IBNS): A Hindu doctor was shot dead in Pakistan's Karachi city, media reports said on Saturday.

He was identified as Dr Pireetam Das.

“Dr Pireetam Das was sitting in his clinic located in Hasrat Mohani Colony at midnight on Thursday when someone attacked him,”  Akhtar Farooq, SSP Investigation West was quoted as saying by Dawn News.

Police said the doctor was attacked when his attendant went to buy a mobile card.

“Hearing the gunshot, the assistant rushed to the clinic and found the doctor bleeding,” Farooq said.

The doctor later died at Aga Khan University Hospital.

Police have started investigating into the matter.
 

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