One robber was killed, and police officer martyred during a police encounter here on Sunday. The dead robber’s accomplices managed to escape.
A patrolling police party tried to stop a group of suspects at Kanal Road, who instead of stopping started firing at the policemen.
In the exchange of fire between police and robbers, a policeman and a robber were killed, while the rest of the robbers fled the scene.
The bodies of the martyred cop, identified as Muhammad Ashraf, and the as yet unidentified robber, were shifted to the local hospital’s mortuary for medico-legal formalities.
