Six dacoits were killed here as a result of heavy cross-firing during two police encounters in the jurisdiction of Race Course and Morgah Police Stations, said a police spokesman.
He informed that Rawalpindi District Police on Thursday, in an essential action in the case of the murder of a British citizen during a robbery three days ago, succeeded in killing four dacoits, members of an inter-provincial gang who were involved in the incident.
According to details, the dacoits opened fire on the police party in the Race Course area late on Thursday night, and during cross-firing, four were killed.
The suspects had shot dead a citizen, namely Tasaraf Mehmood, on his return from the UK in the Race Course area. The gang used police uniforms during the robbery incidents. Members of the inter-provincial gang were also involved in dacoits in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, and Rawalpindi.
City Police Officer Rawalpindi Syed Khalid Hamdani had taken notice of the incident of the murder of a British citizen during a robbery and formed special teams to arrest the accused. When the police party tried to stop the suspects, they started firing. As a result of heavy-cross firing, four robbers, identified as Sajid alias Gutto, Hasan, Muhammad Ali alias Babio, and Waseem, were killed.
Police recovered Tasaraf Mehmood’s laptop, bag, and weapons used in different dacoities. Police uniforms were also recovered from the possession of the accused.
The accused also committed a robbery with a citizen who had returned from Canada. The members of the gang were record holders and allegedly involved in various dacoities of different districts. Earlier, the accused were arrested from the Cantt police station area and challenged.
In another police encounter in the jurisdiction of the Morgah police station area, two dacoits who opened fire on the police party were killed, and two managed to escape from the scene. A dacoit who died in a police encounter was identified as Ahmed Khan, who was a record holder in several street crime cases.
Syed Khalid Hamdani said that those who attack the life and property of citizens could not escape from the grip of the law.
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