KARACHI, Oct 2: Six suspected militants were killed in alleged encounters with Rangers and police here on Wednesday.

A Rangers spokesman said that paramilitary personnel acting on a tip raided a hideout of a splinter group of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan in Manghopir area on Wednesday morning.

In an exchange of fire, Shahedullah and Khayal Badshah were killed and SMGs, pistols and grenades were seized.

According to a Rangersstatement, the two were part of a group that had arrived in Karachi for carrying out terrorist activities to avenge the killing of their leaders in the city.

In the other incident, CID police killed four suspected militants on Hub River Road.

Crime Investigation Department DSP Chaudhry Aslam said that a police team intercepted a vehicle near Lucky Hills but the men in it opened fire, injuring policemen Abdul Rauf and Jamal Khan.

Four militants wereinjured when police returned the fire. They were taken to Civil Hospital where they died. They were identified as Mohammed Sami alias Siddiq, Mohammed Ghani alias Muddasir, Arif alias Dr Maqbool and Abdul Rehman alias Lambu.

The injured policemen were shifted to a private hospital after first aid at the Civil Hospital.

Police claimed that militants, belonging to the Mohmand Agency chapter of TTP, had killed eight policemen and carried out bombblasts in the city during the May 11 elections.

Meanwhile, Omar Khalid Khorasani of the TTP, Mohmand Agency, alleged in a statement that the four members of the group had been picked up about a week ago in two raids in Quetta Town, Sohrab Goth, and news of their arrest had been telecast by `most of the TV channels`. He alleged that they had been killed extra-judicially. He said three other members of the group had also been killed in a similar manner about 15 days ago.