GILGIT: Former Northern Areas inspector general police (IGP) Sakhiullah Tareen and four police officials were killed when unidentified men fired at his vehicle on Wednesday. Tareen was on his way back to Gilgit from Hunza when gunmen ambushed the vehicle he was travelling in near village Jotal some 30 kilometres from here. The attack left the former IG, his son Wajahat and his daughter-in-law critically injured. They were taken to the Combined Military Hospital Gilgit. Tareen died in the hospital where doctors are still trying to save his son and daughter-in-law. His other son Safiullah Tareen and driver were not injured. "It appears to be a sectarian murder. We have ordered investigations," said an Interior Ministry official. Authorities did not yet know who was behind the killing.