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Suspected criminal killed in police encounter

KarachiAn alleged criminal was killed in an encounter with police near Super Highway Industrial Area police limits on Tuesday.During a patrol near Janjal Goth in Gulshan-e-Maymar, police signalled three suspicious men on a motorcycle, but they tried to speed away. When the police gave a chase, the motorcyclists opened fire.

By our correspondents
May 20, 2015
Karachi
An alleged criminal was killed in an encounter with police near Super Highway Industrial Area police limits on Tuesday.
During a patrol near Janjal Goth in Gulshan-e-Maymar, police signalled three suspicious men on a motorcycle, but they tried to speed away.
When the police gave a chase, the motorcyclists opened fire. In retaliation, the law enforcers killed a man, while his two accomplices managed to flee. The body of the deceased was later shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for a postmortem examination.
Police claimed that they seized two TT pistol, a hand grenade and a stolen motorcycle after the shootout.