Staff Reporter:

QUETTA: A policeman who was seriously injured in a firing incident succumbed to injuries in hospital on Wednesday.

Police sources said unknown accused opened fire at a policeman identified as Jawad Hazara on Benazir Bridge area of the city.

The police constable was coming from Hazara Town when attacked, police sources said. The attackers sped away on their motorcycle after the attack.

Police said the martyred policeman belongs to Shia Hazara community of Quetta. Police termed the attack as an act of targeted killing.

This incident has come a day after two policemen were martyred in Quetta’s Nawan Killi area. 

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