RAWALPINDI: A dacoit was killed after a police encounter near Al-Haram city in the jurisdiction of Saddar Baroni police station here on Sunday night.
According to a police spokesman, four motorcyclists opened fire on a police party and in retaliatory fire, a motorcyclist was killed while three others managed to escape from the scene.
Later, the body was identified as Ayaz Hussain who was a dacoit and record holder in several dacoities, robberies, drugs and illegal weapons cases.
The police also recovered weapon and a motorcycle being used by the dacoit killed in encounter, who was wanted in several murder and robbery cases.
The dacoit had also killed a citizen namely Muhammad Naseer in a dacoity.
Superintendent Police (SP) Saddar informed that police parties were conducting raids to net accused managed to escape from the scene.