KARACHI: Police have arrested seven suspects including drug dealers while carrying out operations in different areas of Sindh capital while three people including children have been injured in firing incidents.
There was an encounter between the anti-vehicle lifting cell police and the accused in the Sachal Scheme 33 area of Karachi. During the two-way exchange of fire, two motorcycle lifters were arrested in an injured state, and weapons and a stolen motorcycle were recovered from their possession.
The arrested accused Raghib and Shah Rukh are involved in dozens of cases of theft and snatching of motorcycles. On the other hand, during the alleged police encounter near Sohrab Goth Al-Asif Square, two suspects including one injured were arrested.
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The accused Asif and Rafiullah were looting from the citizens when the police reached the spot and the accused opened fire on the police party. Kurdi, the accused Asif was caught injured in the retaliatory firing while his absconding accomplice Rafiullah was arrested after a chase.
In Malir Memongoth, the police arrested two drug peddlers while acting on a tip-off inside the passenger bus, during the search of the belongings of the accused Farman and Badr Salam, one and a half kilos of crystal drugs were recovered, the drugs were hidden in the secret pockets of the bag.
According to the police, the accused used to bring drugs from Peshawar and supply them to different areas of Karachi, while a drug dealer was arrested during the operation in Mominabad Faqir Colony.
A 5-year-old child Owais was injured due to a bullet coming from an unknown direction near Landhi Dawood Chowrangi, while two civilians named Asif Khan and Abdul Khaliq were injured during separate robbery incidents near Baloch Goth and Jamaat Gah area of Orangi Town. He was shifted to the hospital for medical assistance, and the police registered a case and started searching for the accused.
