KARACHI: Three alleged gang members of Lyari were killed in two separate encounters with the police and Rangers in Lyari and Old City areas on Thursday.
The two gang members of the Sheraz Comrade group of the Lyari gangsters were killed during a joint raid conducted by the police and Rangers in the Saifi Lane area of Baghdadi, Lyari. The gangsters killed in an encounter were later identified as 30-year-old Majeed aka Steel, and 28-year-old Akhtar.
SHO Khalid Abbasi said that the raid was conducted after they received a tip-off about the presence of some members of the gang in the area. They fired at the law enforcers, who retaliated and killed two of the suspects. Two other suspects escaped under the cover of firing.
According to the police, the deceased gangsters were involved in various cases of target killings, kidnappings and extortion.
Similarly, another alleged gang member of Lyari was killed in an encounter with the police on Mehmood Shah Road within the limits of Napier police station. The deceased was identified as Kashif aka Mota. During routine patrolling in the area, the police received a tip-off about the presence of some suspects on Mehmood Shah Road. The police reached the spot and killed the suspect after an exchange of fire. However, his accomplice escaped.
SP Sheraz Nazeer said that Kashif was a member of the Sohail Dada group of the Lyari gangsters. The gang leader, Dada, used to operate his gang from Malir and was allegedly involved in more than 100 cases of crime. He was killed recently killed in the Old City area by the Anti-Extremist Cell of the Crime Investigation Department. The police said that Kashif was considered a close aide of Dada and was wanted by the police in a number of cases.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 11th, 2014.
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