Cop among three shot dead

Karachi
A police constable was among three people gunned down in the city on Friday.
Constable Tanveer Qaiser, 42, was shot dead in Gulshan-e-Ghazi, Baldia.
Ittehad Town SHO Imtiaz Ahmed said Qaiser, who was posted at the Saeedabad police station, was attacked by two men. The policeman was rushed to the Civil hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The officer said the attackers were wearing shalwar kameez. The slain constable had suffered bullet wounds to the head and chest.
Clash in Lyari
A suspected gangster was killed in a clash between two gangs in Kalakot, Lyari.
SHO Safdar Mashwani said members of the Baba Ladla gang entered Nava Lane, the territory of their rival Uzair Baloch gang at night. In the ensuing gun battle between the two sides, a suspected gangster named Mohammed Haris was killed. Another person, Khiyal Zaib, suffered bullet injuries and was admitted to the Civil hospital.
‘Kidnapper’ killed
A suspected kidnapper was killed in a shootout with the Surjani Town police in the Zero Point area.
SHO Naveed Nasir said acting on a tip-off, a police team ambushed kidnappers who were collecting money from a man whose son they had abducted.
Following a brief encounter, they arrested one suspect in an injured condition, while his two associates managed to escape. The injured kidnapper was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital where he expired.
The SHO the dead kidnapper, Amir, had abducted a 10-year-old boy, Naeem, two months ago in New Karachi.
He took Rs200,000 from the boy’s father, Saleem, and again demanded Rs500,000.
The SHO said in his dying statement, Amir had told the police that he and his associates had killed the boy a month ago and thrown his body in a drain. The officer said a rescue team had been assigned the task of searching for Naeem’s body.