KARACHI: Two young men were killed while resisting an armed robbery in the Sachal area on Thursday, police said.

The area police said that the victims in their mid-20s were riding a motorbike when they were intercepted by unknown armed men, also riding a motorbike, on Jamali Pul near Superhighway. Sensing the danger, the riders tried to speed away but the suspects opened fire.

“The victims were labourers returning home from an industrial unit, where they were working,” the police said,

“Both the youths died on the spot,” said a police official, adding that the suspects, however, ran away without getting any booty.

While the police said the victims could not be identified, a statement issued by Leader of the Opposition in the Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh named them as Mumtaz and Abdul Latif.

Published in Dawn, December 31st, 2021