KARACHI: Three suspects were gunned down in an encounter in the Yusuf Goth area in the early hours of Monday, police claimed.

SSP West Irfan Baloch said that a police party acting on a tip-off raided a hideout of the gangsters in Yusuf Goth. On seeing the police, the suspects opened fire and in ‘ retaliatory firing’, the three suspects were shot dead.

The bodies were later shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi where two of them were identified as Irshad Ali, 30, and Mohammad Ali, 23.

The police alleged that the suspects were associated with the Faisal Pathan gang of Lyari.

Published in Dawn, May 27th, 2014