LAHORE, Pakistan — Gunmen in Pakistan shot and killed a visiting American cardiologist from the minority Ahmadi sect in front of his wife and toddler son on Monday as they left a cemetery after visiting relatives' graves, police said.
The two gunmen riding a motorcycle shot Mehdi Ali Qamar 10 times at close range in the central town of Chanab Nagar, police officer Shaukat Ali said, adding that Qamar's wife and son were not harmed. He leaves two other sons.
The officer said that the family arrived two days ago from Ohio for a weeklong visit and that the cardiologist had planned to treat patients at the nearby Tahir Heart Institute. Ali said the killers' motive is not yet known.
Jason Elsea, from the Ahmadiyaa Muslim Community in Columbus, Ohio, said Qamar was from Pickerington and had a practice in Lancaster.
Ahmadis follow the self-proclaimed prophet Ghulam Ahmad and consider themselves Muslims but are forbidden from presenting themselves as such by Pakistani law. They have long been targeted by Islamic extremists.