KARACHI, Aug 13: Rangers shot dead two unarmed men near Karsaz on Sharea Faisal on Tuesday morning.
The rangers claimed that the dead men were bandits and they attempted to run over rangers men by their car.
Police confirmed that no weapon had been recovered from the two suspects later identified as Saleem Baig, aged 35, and Habibullah, aged 28. However, local and foreign currency and some documents were recovered from their possession.
The registration number of the car was tampered with by converting ADG-001 into ADG-881 using wire-tape.
The ADG-881 was the registration number of a Daewoo vehicle and the car used in the incident, ADG-001, was a Suzuki Baleno and it was not shown stolen on the police record, a police official said.
Police said Shamshad Husain arrived here from Dubai on Monday night and stayed the night at his friend’s house. He hired a rickshaw for Cantt station, when a car intercepted him on a service road off Sharea Faisal. Two men alighted from the car and they posed themselves as FIA personnel. They harassed Shamshad and robbed him of foreign and local currency.
TPO Sharea Faisal Azad Khan said that the one of the suspects was clad in shalwar-kameez wearing a police cap. His accomplice was clad in a two-piece suit and wore a neck-tie.
After committing the alleged crime, the suspects sped away towards the Karsaz traffic intersection.
The rickshaw driver, Mohammed Ashraf, ran across the road and approached rangers officials informing them of the robbery, he added.
The TPO said the rangers officials told police that they ran towards the service road opening on the main Sharea Faisal at the Karsaz traffic intersection and signalled the car to stop. As the suspects tried to hit the rangers men, the rangers opened straight fire killing the two alleged bandits sitting in the car. The alleged bandits died on the spot.
Police said they recovered 6,500 Pakistani rupees and 1,200 UAE dirhams besides fake service cards of the FIA, police, and different kinds of credit cards from the suspects.
The bodies were sent to JPMC for autopsy where doctors said the suspects had received multiple bullet injuries.
Sources at the JPMC said the bodies were brought to the hospital hours later after the incident took place. The incident took place at 8:45am. After postmortem examination on the bodies, police took the bodies to Sharea Faisal police station around 1pm.
