KARACHI: A suspected robber was killed in an alleged police encounter in North Nazimabad on Sunday evening.
Taimuria SHO Mohammed Naeem said that armed motorcyclists stanched the cell phone of a policeman in plain clothes, identified as Saeed, when he stopped his motorbike to take someone’s call.
He said the policeman, who was on an intelligence duty in the area, chased the fleeing robbers and an exchange of gunfire took place between them.
The SHO said one suspect got killed near the Mega Centre of Nadra while another arrested in an injured condition. The dead and wounded were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.