local media reports<\/a>, the family arrived at a relative\u2019s home about 11.40pm on Wednesday when they were confronted by two armed robbers on a motorcycle who demanded jewellery.<\/p>\nThe relative who lives at the property, Ms Khan\u2019s uncle Ali Ejaz, said the family handed over about $7500 worth of jewellery.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s understood the robbery was witnessed by a police officer on his break who raced back to his station to retrieve a firearm before returning to the scene.<\/p>\n
Authorities claim the officer exchanged gunfire with the robbers before they fled on their motorcycle.<\/p>\n
As the chaos unfolded, Mr Ahmed attempted to drive his family to safety. However, local media reports say police believed the fleeing vehicle also belonged to the robbers and opened fire.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs the cops saw the vehicle being driven away immediately, they took it as belonging to the robbers and opened indiscriminate fire on the car,\u201d a police official said.<\/p>\n
Mr Ahmed managed to drive to the gate of another family member\u2019s home before losing control of the car and crashing.<\/p>\n
The family was rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital where Hania was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
Mr Ahmed and his son Aafan were transferred to Benazir Bhutto Hospital Rawalpindi where they both underwent surgery.<\/p>\n
Mr Ahmed has since been discharged while his son remains in hospital recovering from his injuries. Dr Sidra Khan was not injured.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young Australian girl has been shot dead by police in Pakistan after officers mistook her family\u2019s rental…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734561,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40,1346],"class_list":["post-734560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=734560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}