TOBA TEK SINGH: Police claimed on Saturday to have killed two suspected robbers in an ‘encounter.’

According to a press release, two robbers Umer Draz and Anwar Pannu of Rajana Chak 254 GB Soondh were on a physical remand.

A police party were taking them to recover looted valuables. When the police van reached near Chak 299 GB located on Khumanawala Road, four accomplices of the robbers riding two motorcycles intercepted the van and opened indiscriminate firing. During a ‘crossfire’, police found Umer and Anwar seriously wounded in firing by their own accomplices.

Both were shifted to DHQ hospital where they succumbed to their injuries.

The release claimed that both were wanted by police in dozens of robbery and theft cases in Sialkot, Sahiwal, Multan and Jhang districts.

Meanwhile, two suspected robbers were injured in an ‘encounter’ with police at Faisalabad’s Roshanwala-Samundri bypass Road.

Both were fleeing after looting people and when police chased them they opened fire. During an encounter, they suffered injuries and were rushed to Faisalabad DHQ hospital in a critical condition.

They have been identified as Abdul Rehman and Irfan Ejaz, residents of Chak Roshanwala.

ROOF COLLAPSE: Three members of a family, including two children, were injured seriously when roof of a room caved in on Saturday at Faisalabad’s Millat Road area near Haq Bahoo Chowk.

Rescue 1122 said debris was removed and the wounded were shifted to Aziz Fatima hospital. The injured have been identified as Amer Naveed (35), his son Roman (5) and his niece Atya Bibi (10).

Published in Dawn, April 10th, 2022