KARACHI: An encounter took place between Pakistan Rangers Sindh and Lyarigangwar criminals in Karachi.
A Rangers personnel embraced martyrdom and an alleged criminal was killedin an exchange of fire in Karachi’s Lyari area on Tuesday evening.
Acting on a tip-off about the presence of terrorists, police and Rangerswere conducting a joint operation in Lyari when the attack happened, policesaid.
SSP City Shiraz Nazir said that one assailant was also killed in theshootout.
Additional contingent of police and Rangers were called in the denselypopulated old-city area once considered a hub of notorious criminal gangsand drug peddlers.