Police encounter: Two ‘TTP militants’ killed
The militants belonged to the Swat chapter of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan
KARACHI:
Police claimed to have killed on Thursday night two suspected terrorists, accused of working for a banned militant outfit, during an encounter on Northern Bypass. An exchange of fire between the police and the terrorists occurred when the police conducted a raid at the suspected hideout of the militants, the police said. Two militants, one of whom was identified as Rahmatullah, were killed in the shoot-out, while a policeman, Ameer Saad Khan was wounded, according to District West SSP Pir Muhammad Shah. SSP Shah said that the militants belonged to the Swat chapter of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and were involved in a number of bomb attacks on law enforcement agencies.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 9th, 2016.
Police claimed to have killed on Thursday night two suspected terrorists, accused of working for a banned militant outfit, during an encounter on Northern Bypass. An exchange of fire between the police and the terrorists occurred when the police conducted a raid at the suspected hideout of the militants, the police said. Two militants, one of whom was identified as Rahmatullah, were killed in the shoot-out, while a policeman, Ameer Saad Khan was wounded, according to District West SSP Pir Muhammad Shah. SSP Shah said that the militants belonged to the Swat chapter of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and were involved in a number of bomb attacks on law enforcement agencies.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 9th, 2016.