FAISALABAD, Aug 13: Police killed two youth in a staged encounter here on Tuesday.

Eyewitnesses told this scribe that a police team overpowered the youth who tried to flee after leaving their motorcycle behind, took them to a deserted place near a brick kiln, and shot them dead.

However, police claimed that the two bandits snatched one Iftikhar’s motorcycle (FDW-8553) at gunpoint in the Nazimabad area.

About half-an-hour later, the bandits were intercepted by two cops on patrol near Warispura. They opened fire on them. Head Constable Riaz sustained serious bullet wounds. Constable Tariq attended to his injured colleague while the bandits escaped.

Constable Tariq informed the Rescue-15 about the incident. Elite Police and Batala Colony, People’s Colony and D-Type Colony staff rushed to the spot and besieged the entire area. A police team succeeded in locating the bandits near Shalimar Chowk.

Police claimed that bandits opened fire on them and when they returned the fire, both the bandits died. — Correspondent