HYDERABAD:As the crime rate surges in the city, the Hyderabad police seem to have resorted to the encounters again after 3 suspects shot and injured in separate encounters late on Sunday night.
The police spokesman informed that in the first encounter Tandojam police claimed that 3 suspected outlaws riding a motorbike engaged them in an exchange of fire during patrolling on Khatian link road.
He added that consequently one suspect, identified as Waqar Sipio, sustained a gunshot and fell from the motorbike while his 2 accomplices escaped.
The injured suspect was arrested and shifted to Liaquat University
Hospital (LUH) for the surgery. The spokesman claimed that the police recovered a 30-bore pistol. He told that Sipio had been booked in 2 separate FIRs after his arrest at Tandojam police station.
In the second encounter near Meeran Shah Girls High School in Heerabad area, the Market police shot and injured 2 suspects. The spokesman claimed that 4 suspects riding on 2 motorbikes engaged the police in the exchange of fire in a bid to escape during patrolling of the Market police.
According to the police, Muhammad Rizwan Jatt and Arif Ali Arain sustained gunshots to their legs and were arrested but the 2 other suspects escaped. The spokesman said the police recovered 2 pistols of 30-bore each and booked them in 3 separate FIRs. Both the injured were shifted to the LUH for the surgeries.