KARACHI: Four suspected robbers were shot dead by citizens in two separate incidents in Orangi Town and Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Friday, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Orangi Town incident, four armed robbers shot and wounded three passers-by and a shopkeeper before area people retaliated and killed two of them late in the evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
West SSP Tariq Illahi Mastoi said that the robbers riding on two motorcycles looted some people at Qadhafi Chowk. As they were fleeing, people nearby tried to overpower them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The robbers opened fire and the bullets hit four persons \u2014 Hassan Mukhtar Ahmed, 23, Asif Arif Khan, 20, Kashan Alamdar, 32, and Abdul Rehman, 34.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He said that some citizens returned fire and as a result, two suspects suffered critical bullet wounds. They were caught by an angry mob, which subjected them to severe beating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, policemen arrived at the scene and shifted the wounded suspects to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where doctors declared them dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The police said their other two accomplices managed to escape from the scene. The deceased were later identified as Shahbaz Badshah Khan and Umar Alam Khan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The SSP said that a search operation had been initiated for the arrest of the absconding suspects and further investigation is in progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The police claimed to have recovered two unlicensed pistols and spent bullet casings from the crime scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
West DIG Irfan Ali Baloch told Dawn<\/em> that both the deceased had past criminal record as there were several FIRs registered against them at the Mominabad, Taimuria and Sharah-i-Noor Jehan police stations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Earlier on Friday, two suspected robbers were gunned down by a citizen during an attempted robbery in Gulistan-i-Jauhar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sharea Faisal SHO Imtiaz Husain Shah said three armed robbers intercepted a car driver near the Jauhar flyover and tried to loot him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, the citizen resisted the robbery bid, took out his weapon and resorted to firing, the SHO said, adding that as a result bullet hit two suspects while their third accomplice managed to escape from the spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The wounded suspects were taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where doctors pronounced them dead on arrival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The police said that their identity could not be ascertained till late in the night. Two pistols, snatched cell phones and cash were recovered from their custody.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Three men shot at, wounded in Clifton<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Three persons were shot at and wounded in Clifton on Friday, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Boat Basin police said that the victims, who included two brothers, were wounded when armed pillion riders resorted to firing on them near Ziauddin hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The victims were identified as Sajid Amin and his brother Dilawar Amin, and a third person, Fazl Rabi. They were shifted to Ziauddin Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n South DIG Syed Asad Raza said that the firing incident occurred over a personal enmity. He said the relatives have identified the suspects and the police are investigating the incident. The crime scene unit was called to collect evidence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Boat Basin SHO Malik Riaz said the condition of the wounded persons was stated to be critical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Meanwhile, Home Minister Ziaul Hasan Lanjar took notice of the incident and sought detailed information from South SSP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KARACHI: Four suspected robbers were shot dead by citizens in two separate incidents in Orangi Town and Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Friday, officials said. In the Orangi Town incident, four armed robbers shot and wounded three passers-by and a shopkeeper before area people retaliated and killed two of them late in the evening. West SSP Tariq Illahi […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-street-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7166,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7164\/revisions\/7166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistanaffairs.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}