A policeman was allegedly shot dead by a suspect, who police say is an expatriate, in Karachi\u2019s Defence Housing Authority (DHA) area during a heated exchange late on Monday night, officials said.<\/p>\n
CCTV footage of the incident is making the rounds on Twitter, showing the suspect and the cop\u2014 both armed \u2014 disembarking from a black car and engaging in a heated argument.<\/p>\n
As the situation escalated, the suspect fired a couple of shots at the officer from a point-blank range and fled, leaving the policeman dead on the spot.<\/p>\n
Police have managed to retrieve the vehicle and the weapon used in the crime, however, the suspect is still at large.<\/p>\n
South SSP Syed Asad Raza said the two policemen \u2014 part of the recently-formed Shaheen Force tasked with tackling street crimes \u2014 were patrolling the area near Ideal Bakery in Clifton, Block 5 when they hailed down a car with tinted windows.<\/p>\n
SSP Raza said the two policemen, who were riding a motorcycle, were \u201ctrying to take the suspect\u2019s vehicle to the police station when the incident took place\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said that the cops were trying to stop the vehicle on the suspicion that the suspect was trying to \u201cabduct a girl\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe suspect pulled out a pistol on the policemen, starting a heated exchange which resulted in an armed stand-off between the two [\u2026] The suspect refused to go to the police station and fired at one of the cops, killing him on the spot,\u201d SSP Raza said.<\/p>\n
The other cop opened fire at the suspect but he remained unhurt and managed to flee from the scene in his vehicle, the senior officer said.<\/p>\n
SSP Raza said the suspect had been identified as a resident of DHA, adding that the vehicle and pistol had also been recovered. He said the killer would be arrested soon while \u201cone of his associates\u201d had already been taken into custody.<\/p>\n
He said the suspect was an expatriate, adding that he lived in Sweden and had come to Pakistan on November 5.<\/p>\n
According to him, the police had informed all the airports as well as the highway police about the suspect in an attempt to ensure his arrest at the earliest.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Karachi police spokesperson said in a statement that the funeral prayers of the martyred cop would be offered at Police Headquarters in Garden after Asr prayers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A policeman was allegedly shot dead by a suspect, who police say is an expatriate, in Karachi\u2019s Defence Housing Authority (DHA) area during a heated exchange late on Monday night, officials said. CCTV footage of the incident is making the rounds on Twitter, showing the suspect and the cop\u2014 both armed \u2014 disembarking from a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296725,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-296722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-national"},"yoast_head":"\n