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10-year-old killed as cops exchanged fire with suspect

KARACHI: As a result of an encounter between Police and an alleged suspect here in Quaidabad area on Friday a ten-year-old boy lost his life. 

Sources informed that two plain-clothed cops were acquiring information in the Sherpao Colony when the suspect fired at them and attempted to flee. In the pursuit, an exchange of fire took place taking the life of a ten-year-old who received a bullet in the head. He was put on a ventilator before he succumbed to his injuries. 

Another 12-year-old boy, who received a bullet wound on the leg, is recovering. Both the cops and the suspect also got injured. Police claims that the wounded suspect Sher Zaman, who was apprehended, after crossfire, had been arrested a number of times previously. It has not been ascertained yet whose bullets killed and injured the boys. 

 

 

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.