Suspect shot dead in ‘encounter’

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KARACHI: A suspected robber was shot dead in Buffer Zone on Tuesday evening, police said.

Taimuria SHO Abdul Rasheed said that two armed men snatched a cell phone and other valuables from a citizen near the Erum Shopping Emporium. In the meantime, a police patrol reached there and in an ensuing exchange of gunfire, an unknown suspect was killed while his accomplice managed to escape from the scene.

The police recovered one pistol and snatched cell phone from his custody.

An FIR was lodged on the complaint of the man whose cell phone was snatched and recovered.

Published in Dawn, July 27th, 2022

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