KARACHI: A suspected gangster, said to be linked with terrorists hiding in Iran and involved in heinous crimes, was shot dead in an alleged encounter on Jahangir Road-II on Tuesday, police said.

They added that acting on a tip-off, the police conducted a raid near a utility store on Jahangir Road where after an exchange of firing, one suspect, identified as Meraj Ahmed, was gunned down while his accomplice managed to escape.

Jamshed Quarters SHO Syed Imtiaz Husain said that the killed suspect was a main ‘shooter’ of a gang led by Jameel Changa and Ahmed Ali Magsi in Lyari.

He was involved in murder, kidnapping and other crimes and also in ‘contact with terrorists in Iran’.

He was also involved in killing of police constable Sohail Shah in Soldier Bazar in 2018.

Four shot by robbers

On Tuesday, three men and a passer-by boy were shot at and wounded by robbers on main Sharea Faisal near the Drigh Road bridge.

Airport SHO Irfan Asif said that after being shot Shoaib Malik, 21, Zubair Husain, 26, and Ibrahim Raheem, 62, reached at a petrol pump near Malir Halt, but the robbers, who were chasing them, made another attempt to snatch cash and other valuables from them.

The SHO said that the robbers resorted to firing and fled but a bullet hit a nine-year-old boy, Abdullah Yameen.

The SHO said the wounded were shifted to the JPMC, where their condition was said to be out of danger.

Published in Dawn, March 6th, 2024