Young man gunned down by police in Islamabad

ISLAMABAD: A young man was gunned down by a policeman at the I-10 sector early Friday morning.

According to police, the young man and woman travelling in a car were signalled by the policeman to stop at a checkpoint at 4:00 am. When they did not stop, the policeman opened fire on their vehicle.

The man identified as Taimur died on the spot and the policeman fled the site. A postmortem report stated that the bullet fractured his skull.

The woman accompanying him is safe.  The two had become friends through social media website Facebook, a family member said. They were coming back from a birthday celebration.

Taimur hailed from Mardan, while the woman with him belongs to Lahore.

Family protests

Tamiur's family protested the killing, by placing his body at the crime site. They demanded a case be filed against the policeman who opened fire on an unarmed citizen. 

Taimur's uncle said the CCTV footage shows he was not signalled to stop, instead the police personnel opened fire straightaway. He added Taimur was coming from his friend's house when he was shot dead. "We got the news at 4am."

In a similar incident in 2013, a Rangers personnel shot dead a taxi driver in Karachi after he did not stop his vehicle.