KARACHI: Police and rangers apprehended a number of suspects and also confiscated their weapons during raids in different areas of the metropolis.
According to details, in a mutual operation of police and rangers, 12 suspects were arrested from the areas of Sharifabad and Nazimabad.
The spokesperson of Rangers told the media that weapons and ammunition were recovered from the suspects taken into the custody from Sharifabad and Nazimabad, whereas three more suspects were apprehended from other areas of Karachi.
Street criminals, dacoits and drug dealers are among the arrested suspects, as per the spokesperson.
Few other arrests were also made from the areas of Shah Faisal town, Aziz Bhatti and Defense.
Two suspects from Defense area were caught red-handed while snatching phone from a citizen on the gunpoint.
In Shah Faisal town, the suspect was arrested in injured state following a shooting face-off with security officials.
Last month, on Karachi-Hyderabad Motorway near Khilji Goth two drug dealers were injured during the firing, while another two were arrested during a police raid against drug traffickers when the latter began firing.
The residents of the area claimed that a 17-year-old, Bilal was allegedly killed by the aerial firing of the police officials and an 18-year-old, was critically injured in the firing.
A protest was staged by the residents of the area where they blocked the highway by placing corpse of the 17-year-old victim in the middle of the road.
The demonstrators also pelted stones at police mobile vans and at the Gadap police station.
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