TAXILA: Two suspected robbers were gunned down while another managed to flee after a ‘shoot-out’ with police on Bajjar Road in the limits of Wah Saddar police station limits in the early hours of Sunday, a police spokesman said.

According to a police spokesman, the suspects were killed by the firing of their own accomplices. The spokesman said a police party on patrol spotted three persons riding on a motorcycle on Bajjar Road. They were signalled to stop, but they resorted to firing, which hit police constable Waqas, but he remained unhurt due to his bulletproof jacket.

The spokesman said the police chased the fleeing robbers and found two of them dead, while the third fled from the scene successfully.

The spokesman further said that police recovered a motorcycle that had been stolen from Wah Cantonment police station a few days ago.

The suspects have not been identified yet, but their bodies have been shifted to Tehsil Headquarters Hospital in Taxila for autopsy. A search operation is being carried out by setting up roadblocks across the city to search for the other suspect.

Meanwhile, two persons nominated in a murder case involving a man who was gunned down over a monetary dispute were arrested on Sunday, a police spokesman said.

Mohammad Shamshair, along with his son Qasim Ali, both residents of sector 25 in Wah Cantonment, allegedly shot and killed a 55-year-old man identified as Mohammad Arif over a monetary dispute in the Saleemnagar area in the limits of Wah Saddar police station on Friday. The police filed a case against the accused, and through human and digital intelligence, traced the suspects and arrested them.

Meanwhile, a 25-year-old woman was abducted by an unknown person in the limits of Wah Saddar police station on Sunday. Mohammad Pervaiz reported to the police that his 25-year-old daughter, after developing differences with her husband, was living with him.

On Sunday, when she was going to some relatives’ house, she was abducted by an unknown person. Police registered an abduction case and launched a hunt to recover the woman.

Published in Dawn, April 8th, 2024

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