Textile mill worker gunned down in Liaquatabad
July 6, 2021
Two suspects killed an employee of a textile mill in an act of target killing in Liaquatabad on Monday.
Sharifabad police said 26-year-old Shaikh Aizaz was attacked on the Karimabad flyover when he was going to his workplace, located in the Karimabad area, on a motorcycle. He died shortly after one of the two men, also riding a motorcycle, shot him twice in his head and chest.
His body was taken to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for an autopsy. Police said the deceased was a resident of the Qasimabad area of Liaquatabad and was on his way to the textile mill where he worked. They said the attackers had been following him.
KARACHI: Police killed two suspected robbers in an alleged encounter on National Highway in Malir early on Monday morning.
Ferozeabad SHO Aurangzeb Khattak said that five robbers were travelling in a Toyota Corolla car when a police patrol signalled them to stop at Nursery on Sharea Faisal. Instead, they opened fire on the police and during an exchange of fire one of the suspects suffered bullet wounds.
He said that the robbers tried to speed away and police chased the vehicle from Nursery to Malir City, where in an ensuing encounter two more suspects got injured. Three suspects were arrested while remaining two managed to escape, he added.
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.
They added that Ibrahim Shoukat was killed near Northern Bypass in Zebu Goth.
Manghopir SHO Abdul Khaliq Ansari said that some friends were allegedly consuming drugs late on Tuesday night when a scuffle broke out between them, which led to Shoukat’s murder.
The officer denied reports that the man was killed while making a TikTok video.
He said a suspect had been taken into custody for interrogation.
Published in Dawn, March 11th, 2021
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