KARACHI: Two suspected robbers were gunned down in an alleged encounter in North Nazimabad on Saturday, officials said.
They said that armed robbers were looting passers-by on the main road in Block J near Qalandaria Chowk when some victims informed a patrolling team of the Shahrah-i-Noor Jehan police station.
The police rushed to the scene and challenged the suspects. However, they opened fire in their bid to escape. The law enforcers retaliated, killing two suspects on the spot.
The bodies were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities.
The police claimed to have recovered two pistols, five mobile phones and one motorcycle from their custody.
They said that they could not be identified till late in the night.
Man shot dead
A middle-aged man was shot dead by unknown persons in Sohrab Goth on Saturday evening, police said.
They said that Usman Shafeeq was killed in Noor Khan Goth over some personal enmity.
Published in Dawn, October 18th, 2026
