7 hours Ago By APP
RAWALPINDI - Five robbers, including one in injured condition, were arrested with the looted amount of Rs 1 million after a shootout with the Waris Khan Police late Friday night. Three of the suspects were taken into custody soon after the crossfire while the rest two, who managed to escape, were arrested on Saturday, the Rawalpindi Police spokesman said. He said the Waris Khan police received a report of the robbery of Rs 1 million from a citizen in their jurisdiction through the Helpline 15.
Five suspects, who had committed the robbery, were fleeing on a motorcycle when they were signalled by a Waris Khan Police team to stop during a snap check. The suspects, however, started firing on the police. The police retaliated and managed to nab three of them, one of them in injured condition, while two escaped.
The entire amount of Rs 1 million and mobile phones snatched from the citizen shortly ago were also recovered from the arrested suspects Arsalan, Qasim and the injured Kashif.The police also seized the motorcycle which the suspects had snatched from a citizen at gunpoint in the area of Waris Khan and the weapons used in the robbery incidents. Rwandan foreign minister to visit Pakistan for inauguration of embassy, high-level talks Tags: shootout waris khan.
