KARACHI, April 28: A local leader of the Awami National Party (ANP) was shot dead in the Hawkesbay area on Sunday, police said.

The victim, 24-year-old Ghazi Gul, was standing near his house in Musharraf Colony when unidentified motorcyclists fired multiple shots at him and sped away.

The victim was shot once in the neck and four times in the chest, said the police, adding that he died on the spot.

The body was shifted to a hospital, from where it was handed over to relatives.

Police said that the victim was a real estate agent and local ANP leader.

Sindh ANP president Shahi Syed said that the deceased had got married five months back and fell victim to a “terrorists’ plot to eliminate ANP cadres”.

He condemned the killing and demanded the killers arrest.

Policeman killed A police constable and a commuter were killed in a Manghopir locality.

A constable at the Manghopir police station, 41-year-old Fida Hussain Mughal, was on his way home on Sunday morning after working the night shift when unidentified men shot him near Chaddar Factory in Pakhtunabad. He died on the spot.

Another motorcyclist who was overtaking the constable also received two bullet wounds.

Both were shifted to a hospital where the passer-by, identified as 37-year-old Mohammad Umar, died. He was a resident of the same area.

Manghopir ASI Ghulam Mustafa said that the deceased constable hailed from Larkana and had been living in the Khwaja Ajmer Nagri area.

Two wounded Thirty-year-old Nasreen Shakeel was wounded when a stray bullet hit her when she was washing clothes in the balcony of her apartment in the Quaidabad area.

She was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where her condition was stated to be stable.

Meanwhile, 40-year-old Deedar Ali was shot and wounded by unidentified men in Sajjan Goth of Saeedabad, the police said.