KARACHI, Aug 6: A suspected hit man was killed in an encounter with police in a Sohrab Goth locality on Tuesday, police said.

They said that three men were looting people at the Ghazi Kanta in Sohrab Goth’s industrial area when a police patrol challenged them. In an ensuing encounter, one of them, identified as Zohaib Rehman, was killed while his two accomplices managed to escape. The driver of a police mobile van, Muhammad Ashraf, a civilian and hired by area industrialists for the police, was wounded in the shoot-out, the police said.

“The deceased was a militant of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan and allegedly involved in killing of policemen in the area,” claimed Sohrab Goth DSP Mohammad Khalid Khan.

Man shot dead in Kalri

A young man was shot dead in Kalri on Tuesday.

They said that a vendor, Nasir Abu Bakr Kutchhi, 35, left his pushcart in Agra Taj Colony to purchase plastic bags from a nearby shop when two gunmen appeared there. They fired four shots at him. A bullet hit him in the neck which proved fatal.

The body was shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi from where his relatives took away the body without allowing doctors to complete medico-legal formalities.

Lyari SP Javed Iqbal Bhatti said that the victim might have killed for being an ‘informer.’

‘Extortionist’ killed

A suspect was killed while his accomplice wounded in an encounter in SITE on Tuesday, police said.

They said that two men came to collect protection money from the owner of a bakery in Metroville when a police team challenged them. They fired at the police and in an ensuing encounter, one of them, later identified as Wajahat Ali, 21, was killed while his accomplice, Ibrahim, was arrested in a wounded condition, said SITE SHO Tufail Ahmed.

He said the police had no previous criminal record of the deceased. The dead and wounded were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

Man killed upon resistance

A man was shot dead allegedly by robbers in Sohrab Goth. Police said four bandits entered a house in Ayub Goth early on Tuesday morning and opened fire on Mohammad Minsha, 48, when he offered resistance.

He sustained two bullet wounds and was taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.