KARACHI: At least four suspects were killed in a shootout with police and two others arrested on Monday in multiple operations conducted by police in Karachi.
According to police, an operation was carried out in Gulshan-i-Iqbal’s Dalmia area onreports regarding the presence of Lyari gang-war suspects. The suspects opened fire upon seeing police personneland in the shootoutfour suspects were injured who died before being shifted to a hospital.
Police recovered a Kalashnikov rifle, repeater gun, four rifle grenades, two hand grenades, two pistols, and a cache of bullets from the possession of the suspects.
In a separate targeted operation in Gulshan-i-Maymar, law enforcers arrested a suspect belonging to the militant wing of a political party. Police caught the suspect, identified asAsif, over information provided by an under-custody suspect, sources said.
In Ajmer Nagri, another armed suspect was arrested and weapons retrieved from him.
In Landhi’s Dawood Chowrangi, people assaulted two alleged dacoits and handed them over to police.