TANK: Police claimed on Tuesday to have killed a cop’s killer along with his three accomplices in an encounter at Gara Pather village here on Tuesday.

District police officer Rasool Shah told media persons that Shahid Ullah had killed Constable Tariq Kundi during checking at Latif checkpost here, and had managed to escape.

Mr Shah said police encircled a house in the area following reports that Shahid Ullah along with his accomplices was hiding there. However, the outlaws hiding there opened fire on the personnel and lobbed hand grenades at them.

The police officer said during the ensuing exchange of fire Shahid Ullah, his three accomplices identified as Omar Ali, Zohaib Hassan and Asmat Ullah were killed. Weapons were also recovered from the house, he added. After the postmortem at the district headquarters hospital, Tank, the bodies were handed over to their relatives.

Published in Dawn, February 17th, 2016