The city police arrested nine suspected people, including a wounded miscreant, during an overnight operation undertaken in Soldier Bazaar and other localities around Patel Para area. The operation was conducted to track down the saboteurs involved in an attack on a police check post in the mentioned area.
It is pertinent to mention here that some saboteurs on Monday attacked a police check post near Patel Para, killing two police personnel and injuring two others. Police launched the overnight search operation to hunt down the terrorists involved in the terror attack in Patel Para.
Police personnel from different police stations of east zone undertook two operations in Patel Para and Soldier Bazaar areas. The first targeted operation was conducted in Patel Para’s Darban Bazaar, where police faced resistance but managed to arrest a miscreant in an injured state after the exchange of fire.
Later, the police carried out a house-to-house search operation and arrested seven suspects.
The second targeted operation was conducted in Soldier Bazaar from where a single suspect was arrested. Police claimed to have recovered eight weapons from the possession of the arrested miscreants.