KARACHI: Two citizens got caught in the crossfire between police and bandits in the Naya Nazimabad area on Thursday evening.

DIG-West Irfan Ali Baloch told Dawn that three suspects were looting citizens at the Gate No 1 of Naya Nazimabad when a police patrol arrived there and challenged them. The muggers resorted to firing and in an ensuing exchange of gunfire, two persons were killed and a robber was arrested in wounded condition, he added.

The DIG said among the two dead, one citizen was identified as Shabbir. The identification of the second deceased persons could not be made till late in the night and the police.

The DIG claimed that both the citizens were killed in the firing by the robbers.

A Chippa spokesperson told Dawn that both the victims were passers-by.

The bodies and the wounded suspect were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.

Two suspects shot dead in ‘encounter’

Two suspected robbers were shot dead in an alleged encounter in the Buffer Zone area on Thursday evening.

Central SSP Zeeshan Shafiq Siddiqi said that an encounter between police and criminals took place near the Lyari river in which, two suspects, later identified as Faisal and Nasir Hanif, were killed.

The police had recovered two pistols and a motorcycle from their cutstody.

The killed suspects had past criminal records as there were five cases registered against them, claimed the SSP.

Meanwhile, a police constable, Imran Khan, was shot at and wounded in an encounter between police and robbers near Nursery on Thursday night, the Ferozabad police said.

Published in Dawn, April 5th, 2024