A woman journalist and social worker has been shot dead allegedly by her husband in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province, a media report said on Sunday.
The incident took place in Turbat, the headquarters of Kech district, on Saturday.
According to a police statement, husband Mehrab Gichki took Shaheena Shaheen Baloch’s body to a hospital in a car, but fled soon afterwards. By that time, the woman had died from bullet wounds.
Police visited a house in the PTCL Colony, Turbat, where the shooting allegedly took place. Police found blood, an empty bullet shell and a bullet at the scene, the Dawn newspaper reported.
Police quoted some sources as saying that Baloch was the wife of Gichki.
However, a relative of the deceased disputed this.
A case has been registered and investigation is underway, a senior police official said, adding that Gichki is still absconding.
He said the incident seemed to be a case of domestic violence.