Another suspect involved in slain businessman’s kidnapping killed

HYDERABAD: The Hyderabad police have claimed that a robber has been killed and his accomplice arrested after a police team encountered the robbers involved in the abduction of businessman Hasan Nasir Nizamani, who was later killed during the rescue operation.

According to a spokesman for the Hyderabad SSP, the businessman was abducted on October 11 from Hyderabad and shifted to Shikarpur. A joint operation was conducted on October 24 in Shikarpur for his recovery, however, he was killed during it.

According to the police, when the hostage saw the police team arriving, he tried to run away from the clutches of the robbers, prompting them to shoot him dead. In the retaliatory action of the police, one robber was killed and another arrested.

On Friday morning, a police team led by Hyderabad Police A Section SHO Naik Muhammad Khoso, Hosri SHO Maqsood Raza and Rahuki SHO Qurban Aqilani arrested another bandit, Abdul Qadir Sial, in connection with Nizamani’s kidnapping and killed another robber identified as Abdul Wahab Veser.

The encounter took place between the police and six armed robbers within the Rahuki police station’s limits. A large contingent of the Hyderabad police took part in the operation, in which one man was killed and another arrested.

The other four suspects managed to flee the scene. Police said Sial was a hardened criminal and wanted by the Hyderabad police in multiple cases pertaining to murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, illegal weapons and police encounters. The Hyderabad police had also requested the Sindh government to announce a bounty of Rs5 million for his arrest.