PO shot dead in encounter

Published March 29, 2002

SIALKOT, March 28: A proclaimed offender was shot dead while two police constables sustained injuries in an encounter in Mohalla Islamabad, Daska late Thursday.

Seeing police patrolling, Sialkot SSP Muhammad Tahir said Asif Ali alias Choee resorted to firing which was returned.

Ali died instantly while constables Ansar and Husain Bakhsh sustained grievous injuries.

Daska police are investigating.

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