KARACHI: A suspect was killed while another arrested during an alleged police encounter in Karachi’s Gulistan-e-Johar area on Thursday, local media reported citing sources.
According to reports, the encounter took place between law-enforcement personnel and robbers in Block 9 of Gulistan-e-Johar area during which the police officials shot dead one suspect, while his accomplice was apprehended in an injured condition.
The police later recovered the weapons and looted mobile phones from possession of the accused.
Earlier in the day, the Anti-Vehicle Lifting Cell (AVLC) Karachi claimed to have killed a ‘notorious’ vehicle-lifter in an encounter in Baldia Town vicinity.
As per reports, the AVLC intercepted an individual named Kamran alias Langra who was being considered an icon of terrorism in Baldia Town locality in Karachi’s Keamari distinct. The suspect was killed in the encounter with the law-enforcers.
