A young man was killed when a policeman opened fire at his vehicle in I-10 sector, Islamabad. The policeman fled the scene following the incident. According to the police, the young man and woman traveling in a car were signaled by the policeman to stop at a checkpoint. When they did not stop, the policeman opened fire on their vehicle. The man identified as Taimur died on the spot and the policeman fled the site. A postmortem report stated that the bullet fractured his skull. The woman with him in the vehicle is safe. Her family said that the girl who originally hailed from Lahore had become friends with Taimur through social media website Facebook. The two had gone out to celebrate a birthday when they were asked to stop the car by the police, a member of the girl's family said.