KARACHI, Jan 18: Two alleged carjackers were shot dead on Saturday in an apartment in Gulistan-i-Jauhar in what police claimed ‘an exchange of fire’.
Police said three carjackers intercepted Chaudhry Sa’ad and snatched his car (ADU-008) in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on Friday night. The complainant informed the Madadgar 15, and also a police on patrol, who chased after the carjackers. The alleged bandits entered a residential complex and then moved to another one, called Muneer Haven in Block-17 of Gulistan-i-Jauhar.
Meanwhile, the police reinforcement reached the spot and besieged the residential complex by closing its entrances. The police, using megaphones, warned the bandits to surrender and asked the occupants of the apartments to keep their doors shut and don’t peep through windows.
The police continued to surround the residential complex till morning and then started a search of each floor. Some residents of the complex helped the police in locating the hiding spaces in the complex.
Sensing danger, an alleged bandit, who was present on third floor, started firing at the police, who returned the fire resulting in his instantaneous death. His accomplice attempted to make a resident hostage, but the police foiled his attempt and killed him on the spot. However, the third one managed to escape, the police added.
The police claimed to have recovered two TT pistols, the stolen car, besides two more stolen cars (ADJ-262 and ABP-019) in the same apartment. The police found ID cards from the alleged bandits, which showed their names as Abdul Mannan and Asif Khan. Both the bandits were residents of Pishin, Baloshistan.
BODIES FOUND: Three men were killed and their bodies were found at different places on Saturday.
A man was shot dead by unidentified men in Landhi and his body was thrown at an isolated place.
Sukkan Police said they found the body and shifted it to JPMC for autopsy, where he was identified as Riaz Ahmed, 28. The police suspected personal enmity as the motive of the killing.
In another incident in Sharafi Goth police limits, the body of a man was found lying at a derelict place. The man was believed to have been killed with an ax. The body was sent to JPMC for autopsy, where the identity could not be established immediately. The body was later kept at Edhi morgue for identification.
An unidentified body of a teenager was found in a storm-water drain in North Karachi on Saturday.
Khuwaja Ajmer Nagri police on information arrived at the spot in Sector 5-B/3, and removed the body to Abbasi hospital for autopsy.
The hospital sources said the postmortem on the body was performed which suggested that the man’s throat was choked with a rope, which resulted in his death. The body was later kept at Edhi morgue for identification.
ACCIDENT: A motorcyclist died in a hit-and-run accident on a thoroughfare in Buffer Zone on Saturday.
Mohammad Ashraf, 45, left his home in the morning in Buffer Zone for office and was riding on his motorbike when a recklessly-driven vehicle hit him on Shah Waliullah Road. Ashraf died on the spot.
The passersby informed the police, who removed the body to Abbasi hospital for autopsy.
CARJACKING: As many as 21 vehicles — seven cars and 14 motorcycles — were either hijacked or stolen in the metropolis on Saturday, the police sources said.
Six cars were hijacked and another one stolen in different localities.
Seven motorbikes were hijacked and seven others stolen in Gulberg, North Nazimabad, Saddar, Gulshan and other towns.
