Conflicting claims: Protests over killing in encounter
Protesters block flow of traffic on one side of road, claim police killed an innocent person in ‘fake’ encounter
KARACHI:
Scores of people staged a demonstration on the road near Five Star Chowrangi in North Nazimabad to protest the killing of a man during an alleged police encounter.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 14th, 2014.
Scores of people staged a demonstration on the road near Five Star Chowrangi in North Nazimabad to protest the killing of a man during an alleged police encounter.
The protesters blocked the flow of traffic on one side of the road, claiming the police had killed an innocent person in a ‘fake’ encounter. They alleged that he was shopping at a nearby market when the police shot him dead. SHO Nawaz Gondal said that a man, identified as Asad, was killed during an exchange of fire between police and robbers, adding that three robbers were injured by the police. He said that the victim was killed by the robbers’ firing. An inquiry is being conducted into the incident.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 14th, 2014.