At least two traffic police officials were shot dead in a targeted attack by unidentified assailants in Karachi's Ayesha Manzil area on Saturday.
"One official traffic police official died on the spot and the other official died while being transported to the hospital," Dawn quoted a rescue sources as saying.
Both the officials were shot multiple times from close range and the assailants managed to escape the scene of the incident.
Meanwhile, emergency and security services reached the spot of the attack and started their initial investigations.
Last September in a similar incident, a traffic police constable was shot dead while two others sustained bullet wounds in an armed attack in Site-B area of the metropolis.