KARACHI: Two suspected robbers were gunned down in an ‘encounter’ in North Karachi, Sector 15-A, police said on Friday.

They claimed that the deceased had allegedly been involved in the recent murders of two shopkeepers for putting up resistance during a robbery attempt in the same area.

Taimuria SHO Asif Munawar said the suspects were allegedly looting people late Thursday night near the terminus of 7-C bus when a police party reached there.

On seeing the police, the suspects resorted to firing and during the exchange of fire, both the suspects were killed.

One of them was identified by his relative as Ghulam Rasool alias Ghulamu, who originally belonged to the Johi area of Dadu district. He had a criminal record as he had been arrested in the past, added the officer.

The other deceased was identified with the help of his CNIC found in his pocket as Danial, a resident of New Karachi.

His relatives have so far not approached the police for claiming the body.

The SHO claimed that the witnesses had identified the deceased as they had been involved in the murders of a shopkeeper and his employee at their meat shop in the same locality of Taimuria last Sunday.

Published in Dawn, May 19th, 2018