Power outage: Rangers deployed as protest turns violent in Liaquatabad

Protesters set three buses, one car on fire. Police blocks all roads leading to the area.

KARACHI: Rangers were deployed in the Liaquatabad No. 10 area of Karachi after a protest against power outage turned violent on Saturday, reported Express News.

Three buses and a car were burnt down and shops were forcefully closed in the area by the protesters.

An exchange of fire between police officials and the protesters was also reported in the area. The police has blocked all roads leading to and from Liaquatabad.

According to sources, power to the area was suspended after a local substation caught fire. Sources at the KESC said that residents of Al-Karam Square were found stealing electricity last night, due to which the substation caught fire.

In a separate incident, one person was killed during a clash between two groups in the Bhains Colony area.

2 killed in firing

Two people were killed and one injured in a firing incident in the Gulistan-e-Johar area of Karachi on Saturday.

The dead were identified as 35-year-old Aftab Magsi and 30-year-old Ghulam Shabbir.

Four dacoits arrested

Karachi police arrested three women and a man during an incident of robbery in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal area on Saturday.

According to SHO Shehzada Saleem, three women and a man entered a flat in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal block 13-D area and started looting money, jewellery and other items after holding the residents hostage.

The neighbours called the police while the robbery was taking place, on which the police arrested Tayyaba, Samreen, Zahida and Ubaidullah, and recovered weapons from them.

The police claimed that the arrested suspects have confessed of robbing more than 20 houses.