QUETTA, April 13: Two alleged outlaws were killed and two policemen injured on Saturday in an exchange of fire with each other in the jurisdiction of Resaldar Police Station, near the Sindh-Balochistan border.

Reports reaching here said that some armed men sitting in a pick-up opened indiscriminate fire on a police patrol, injuring two constables. And when the police returned fire, two of the alleged attackers died on the spot while their other accomplices fled.

The dead were identified as Noor Mohammad and Rakhia Hotani while one of the injured policeman was identified as Islamuddin, but the name of other could not be ascertained.

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