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| Held 'hit man' killed in police custody |
| 2015-02-08 |
| [DAWN] A suspect, said to be involved in the assassination of eight coppers and four doctors, was rubbed out in police custody under mysterious circumstances in the early hours of Friday. Police claimed to have jugged Book 'im, Mahmoud! suspect Obaid Rehman, 24, in a Surjani Town locality on Thursday and DIG-West Tahir Naveed told a presser that he was allegedly involved in the killing of 22 people, including four doctors and eight coppers. SSP-West Azfar Mahesar told Dawn that a police team was taking the suspect to Orangi Town's Altaf Nagar to carry out a raid on a hideout of his other accomplices late on Thursday night. He claimed that as soon as the police arrived at the hideout, gunnies fired at the police and the bullets hit a policeman and the held suspect. The SSP said that the suspect was handcuffed when he was killed in firing. The maimed policeman, who suffered a bullet wound in the head, and the body of the dear departed were shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. Everyone involved in the gun attack on the police team that killed the held suspect managed to escape. The SSP said that the dear departed was arrested earlier for his alleged involvement in the killing of six people. However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... he spent only three months in prison and was recently enlarged on bail. In January he allegedly killed nine people in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... 's central district alone, he added. The victims included three doctors and four coppers. "Most of the killings took place on sectarian grounds," added the SSP. He said that the suspect was associated with a 'political party' until 2010, but later joined a proscribed sectarian organization. |
| Posted by:Fred |