KARACHI, March 20: A man and his sister were killed and his daughter critically injured on Tuesday night in a police firing incident in the city’s North Nazimabad locality.

According to police, the deaths and injuries resulted from crossfire.

Police claimed that they had been chasing bandits and an exchange of fire with them took place near the Sakhi Hasan roundabout where two citizens were killed and two others injured in the crossfire.

Witnesses, however, disputed the claim and said the police had signalled two men on a motorcycle to stop, but they had sped away near the Sakhi Hasan roundabout. The policemen in a van of Madadgar 15 opened fire. The bullets hit a car and its occupants. The bodies of a man and a woman and the two injured were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. The dead were later identified as Feroze and Sabeeha.

One of those injured was identified as Afsana Bibi, the daughter of Feroze. She was rushed to the operating theatre and her condition was stated to be serious.

The other injured person was shifted to a private hospital and was thought to be a passerby.

“It was not the police mobile van of our town,” said North Nazimabad town police officer Iqbal Dara, adding that law enforcement personnel were trying to find the mobile van that was responsible for the incident.

Sources in the Madadgar 15 said that there were two police mobile vans, one belonging to Madadgar 15 of North Nazimabad town and the second of the Shahrah-i-Noorjahan police station.