Three dacoits were killed in two police encounters in Shikarpur and Kandhkot in the wee hours of Wednesday.
The first incident took place in Shikarpur where dacoits were busy holding up three people trying to abduct them along with their car in the limit of Kot Shahu police station.
The robbers opened gunfire at police as they appeared at the scene. In retaliation by police party, notorious dacoit of Sindh, Khanu Mir Bahr was killed along with his accomplice.
]Police said that Khanu was a proclaimed offender with head money worth one million rupees.
Meantime, in another police encounter in Kandhkot area of Karampur, a dacoit was killed and two others were arrested in wounded condition.
