KARACHI: A suspected robber was lynched and his accomplice critically injured by a mob in Orangi Town on Sunday, police said.

Iqbal Market SHO Ameen Mughal said two robbers committed a robbery at a junk dealer’s shop in Shah Waliullah Nagar, Sector 11 ½ of Orangi Town. As they were fleeing after the crime, area people caught the duo and subjected them to severe beating with hard and blunt instruments before the arrival of police.

As a result, one unknown suspect died on the spot while another suffered critical injuries.

The dead and wounded were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for medico-legal formalities and treatment, respectively.

The police claimed to have recovered one pistol with a loaded magazine from them.

Only on Saturday, the enraged people overpowered two suspected robbers who were fleeing after robbing a shop in Orangi Town. They lynched one of them.

Wounded man kills armed suspect in Jauhar

In Gulistan-i-Jauhar, a citizen, who was shot and wounded by robbers, killed one of the suspects.

Sharea Faisal SHO Haji Mohammed Ishaq said Amir Naseem, 45, who works at a firm as its human resource manager, had come here from Islamabad to meet his friend.

At around 7:30am, he along with a friend went on a motorbike to have breakfast at a restaurant near Rabia City in Gulistan-i-Jauhar.

On the way, they stopped at an ATM to draw cash. Three armed men riding a motorbike suddenly emerged there and demanded whatever cash and other valuables they had. As the two friends tried to flee on the bike, the robbers fired at them.

As a result, Naseem, who was riding as pillion passenger, suffered a bullet wound in the thigh and fell from the motorcycle. However, keeping himself safe, he pulled out his licensed pistol and fired at the robbers. One suspect, later identified as Zubair, was hit by bullets and died. His accomplices managed to escape.

The police shifted the injured citizen and the body to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre.

Published in Dawn, December 26th, 2022