KARACHI: Residents of Gulbahar took the law into their own hands as they caught and killed a suspected robber early on Thursday.
According to SSP Central Irfan Baloch, two robbers on a motorcycle in a robbery attempt crashed into a wall when Enraged residents then encircled the suspects and started beating them, after which one of the suspects died while the other was injured.
The injured robber was handed over to the police, who arrested him.
In another robbery attempt in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, residents managed to catch a robbery suspect, who was beaten and then handed over to the police. His accomplice of the suspect fled from the scene.
In a similar incident earlier this month, two robbers were caught during an armed robbery in Saddar area. Residents, after getting hold of one of the robbers, gave him a beating following which he succumbed to his injuries in the hospital, while the other died in a shoot-out.
