Robbers kill cop

Published November 26, 2021

RAHIM YAR KHAN: A Sindh police employee was killed by robbers near Machka.

Constable Amanat Ali Dharejo, along with three other policemen of Ghotki’s Khambra police station, was on way to the motorway police check post when robbers stopped them and started firing.

Dharejo died while being shifted to the Sheikh Zayed Medical College Hospital, RYK.

Ghotki SSP Umar Tufail told journalists six robbers tried to deprive policemen of valuables and killed one of them.

RYK police spokesperson Saif Ali Wains said the Sindh police employees were going to M-5 for their duty. When they reached near Mauza Hasu Daraha, Ghotki, robbers in the sugarcane field opened fire on them.

Published in Dawn, November 26th, 2021

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