KARACHI: A shopkeeper was shot dead by alleged robbers over resistance in Surjani Town on Sunday evening, police said.

They added that Abbas Latif, 45, was gunned down at his shop in Ali Mohammed Goth.

Surjani Town SHO Gul Baig Pinjaro told Dawn that two armed motorcyclists appeared at the shop and demanded cash from him.

When he put up resistance, the motorcyclists opened fire on him and fled.

He sustained critical bullet wounds on his neck and was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.