KARACHI: A suspected robber was shot dead and another wounded in a shootout in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on Saturday evening, police said.

East SSP Abdul Rahim Sherazi said two armed motorcyclists attempted to snatch case from a milk seller in Block-13-D. However, the milk seller pulled out his pistol and fired at them. In an exchange of gunfire, suspect Mehtab was killed on the spot.

In the meantime, a police patrol reached the scene and arrested the fleeing suspect, later identified as Shan Bashir, 29, in an injured condition.

The police recovered one motorbike and two pistols from their custody.

The dead and injured were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

In another incident in Cattle Colony, a suspected robber was shot dead in an alleged police encounter on Saturday morning.

Malir SSP Irfan Bahadur said that two suspects snatched a motorbike and other valuables from a citizen and fled. The robbery victim informed Madadgar-15 police, which chased the fleeing suspects and in an ensuing encounter arrested a suspect in an injured condition. The wounded died while being taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC).

Doctors at the JPMC said he suffered a single bullet wound in the head. The deceased was identified as Hameedullah Khan, 22.

Published in Dawn, March 27th, 2022