A well-known physician named Dr Shambho Lal was gunned down on Monday afternoon in an apparent targeted attack in Lyari allegedly over a financial dispute.
At around 3:30pm, unidentified assailants on a motorbike opened fire on the 52-year-old doctor near Aleshan Masjid on Mirza Adam Khan Road, leaving him critically wounded as they fled the scene.
The victim was taken to Dr Ruth KM Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi in an ambulance, but he succumbed to his injuries during treatment. Doctors said he had suffered three bullet wounds.
Police said Dr Lal, who ran a clinic in the Kalakot area of Lyari, had been on his routine walk when the attack occurred. The Crime Scene Unit found three spent 9mm bullet casings from the site and sent them to the Forensic Science Laboratory for analysis. CCTV footage from the nearby cameras is also being obtained. District City SSP Arif Aziz told The News that the murder is being investigated from different angles, and the victim’s son, who insists that a financial dispute was the motive, said he would nominate the suspects in the FIR.
Later, in the evening, FIR No. 274/25 was registered at the Kalakot police station under sections 302 and 34 of the Pakistan Penal Code on the complaint of the victim’s son Dr Deepak Lal.
In his statement, the complainant said his father had been walking in a park when three men approached and called out his name, and as he tried to run, they shot him from behind. He claimed that his father had monetary dealings with certain individuals and was owed money by them, and that the same people could be behind the killing.