KARACHI, Nov 15: Two suspected bandits were shot dead and an accomplice of theirs was wounded in what the police claimed an encounter in Nazimabad on Thursday night.
The police said that four armed men entered Sadaquat Clinic on the main road in Nazimabad No 1. They held the people there as hostage, collected valuables from patients, their attendants, the doctor and other staff and demanded from the doctor the keys of his car parked outside the clinic.
A boy from the canteen at the clinic escape from the clinic and informed a passing police mobile. The police said that while fleeing the bandits opened fire on the approaching police party. The police returned the fire killing two alleged bandits on the spot and injuring one. The fourth suspected bandits escaped.
The dead bandits were identified as Ghaffar and Rizwan, both in their twenties. The injured bandit, Waqar, aged 24, had been admitted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, sources at the hospital said.
SUICIDE: A jobless young man committed suicide in Orangi Town on Thursday.
The police said that Nadeem, aged 25, hanged himself from a ceiling fan in his house in Orangi Town.
He had been jobless for some time. On Thursday, he committed suicide when he was alone in the house. When his mother returned home she found her son hanging from a ceiling fan. Nadeem’s father died a few years back, the police said. The body was sent to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for post- mortem.
CARJACKING: Eight vehicles — four cars and an equal number of motorcycles — were stolen in the city on Thursday, the police said.
The cars were stolen in Clifton (two), Darakhshan, and Shah Faisal Colony.
The motorcycles were stolen in Arambagh, Preedy, Baloch Colony, and Gulistan-i-Jauhar.
