At least two people including a policeman were killed in firing incidents in different areas of the city here on Tuesday. The police arrested 25 criminals during separate actions and recovered arms and drugs from their possession. According to police, some unidentified miscreants opened indiscriminate gunfire near Shershah Pankha Hotel (restaurant), killing a man, Abdullah, on the spot and fled the scene. The body was shifted to a civil hospital for postmortem.
A policeman, Babar, who was injured in a firing incident in Kharadar, succumbed to injuries at Civil Hospital.
Meanwhile, firing incidents continued in different areas of Karachi, including Sohrab Goth, Lyari, North Karachi during which six persons were reported injured. The injured were shifted to different hospitals of concerned areas.
Unknown miscreants hurled four hand grenades at cement depot and a crush plant in Shah Latif Town and Mangopir areas of the city. However, no causality or injury was reported in both the attacks. On special directives of DIG East, Shahid Hayat, the police conducted search operation in different areas of the city during which 25 criminals involved in murder, attempted murder, street crimes and robberies were nabbed. The police claimed to have recovered eight pistols, two revolvers and huge quantity of drugs from their possession.
CID police arrest 2 TTP men: The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of Police on Tuesday arrested two men belonging to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) after conducting raids in different areas of the city. According to SP CID Fayaz Khan, the police arrested the TTP men from Mauripur and Federal B Area. The arrested men were involved in several incidents of target killings also.
Two killed in violence
