Police said on Sunday that a man wanted for various offences had been killed in an encounter in Garh area.
The deceased had a Rs200,000 bounty. CPO Sohail Habib Tajik told The Express Tribune that two armed men had snatched Rs20,000 and a motorcycle from Atta Muhammad Sial late on Saturday in Killianwala. He said Sial had called Rescue 15 after the incident. Tajik said a police team led by Garh SHO Rana Muhammad Arshad had reached the spot after receiving the information and had pursued the suspects.
He said the team had cornered them near Pattan Peepal and urged them to surrender. Tajik said an encounter had ensued after the men had fired on the team. He said one of the suspects had been killed in the encounter. Tajik said the other man had fled under the cover of darkness. He said the deceased had been later identified as Abdul Ghafoor alias Ghafoori. Tajik said he was wanted for various offences including murder and robbery. He said police had also recovered a snatched motorcycle, one pistol, one rifle and twenty bullets from the spot.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 2rd, 2015.
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