LARKANA, May 21: In a shootout between police and dacoits, two dacoits and four policemen, including three assistant sub-inspectors, were killed while 13 others, including seven policemen and six passersby, were injured on Tuesday.

Police had been tipped off that the dacoits had taken shelter at the Bacho Mughiri village along with two hostages, Nazir Ahmed Pathan and Barkat Ali Jagirani, whom they had kidnapped on late Monday night from a village near Ratokot. So a heavy contingent of police sealed off the Bacho Mughiri village.

Soon a shootout started between the police and the dacoits as a result of which M. Panah Brohi, the personal bodyguard of the Kambar DSP, was killed on the spot, while two policemen — Nazir Ahmed Gopang and Mazhar Gadhi — were injured.

The dacoits escaped towards Nasirabad.

The AIGP told newsmen that when the dacoits entered Nasirabad, they opened fire on the police killing ASI Abdul Karim Massan and ASI Abdul Majeed Magsi. The police also opened fire on the dacoits as a result of which one of them was killed whose identity could not be ascertained.

During the press briefing the AIGP received information that ASI Manzoor Ahmed Sangi had been injured in an encounter with dacoits. He later died.