Policeman found shot dead in Pakistan

Three policemen have been found shot dead – each by a single bullet to the head - west of Pakistan’s capital.

Officer Arshad Mahmood said it appeared to be a targeted killing, but would not say if Taliban militants were suspected.

The dead policemen were discovered early today in their guard room along a railway bridge in Hasan Abdal, a town 25 miles west of Islamabad in Punjab province.

Mahmood said they appeared to have been sleeping when they were killed.

Pakistani Taliban militants frequently target police, though usually in the country’s volatile northwest.

As Islamist militancy has grown in Pakistan, criminality also has risen.