FAISALABAD, Nov 8: Four alleged outlaws and a constable were killed while another policeman and a woman sustained bullet wounds in an encounter near Allied Hospital here on Monday.

Police said they had received an information that a gang of outlaws was planning to rob a bank on Jail Road. Armed commandos in plain clothes were deputed in the area.

Meanwhile, a police team intercepted a car (IDM-657) which was occupied by four people in front of the Allied Hospital. The car riders opened fire on police. The police returned the compliment in which the outlaws were killed while commandos Ihtishamuddin and Dilbar Husain and a passer-by woman, Fatima, sustained injuries.

The injured were taken to the hospital where Ihtishamuddin bled to death while the condition of Dilbar and Fatima was stated to be out of danger.

Later, DPO Amin Wains told this correspondent that two of the outlaws had been identified as Bilal of Chak 53 GB and Asghar Ali of Chak 73 GB of Jaranwala.

He claimed that Asghar was a close relative of proclaimed offender and hired killer Umer Hayat alias Umri of Satiana and wanted in a number of heinous crimes.

He said Bilal was the head of the gang which was committing crimes in different cities of the district.

Police recovered four Kalashnikovs, four pistols, 11 magazines, hundreds of rounds and daggers from the possession of gangsters. A number of identity cards, fake number plates of vehicles, driving licenses and some important documents have also been taken into custody from the possession of outlaws.

The DPO said four teams had been constituted for the arrest of other members of the gang.

He announced a cash reward of Rs1 million for the family of Constable Ihtishamuddin and Rs100,000 for injured Dilbar.

Meanwhile, funeral prayer of Constable Ihtishamuddin was offered in the grounds of Police Lines which was attended by Faisalabad Range DIG Abid Saeed, DPO Amin Wains, Saddar SP Tauqeer Hayat and others. Later, he was buried in Ghulam Muhammadabad graveyard.

He left behind a wife and a one-year-old daughter.