KARACHI: A suspected criminal was arrested in the North Nazimabad area after a dramatic chase.
Police said that a suspect snatched the mobile phone of a delivery boy near Sakhi Hasan. However, area people and police gathered there and in a bid to avoid arrest, the suspect climbed up the overhead bridge of the Green Line service, jumped, and hung onto the passing wires.
They said that he remained there for quite some time and then jumped onto a sheet laid out by the police on the ground to rescue him.
A video of the incident also went viral on social media.
Suspect shot dead in `encounter` A suspected carjacker was shot dead in an alleged encounter in the Ittehad Town area on Friday, police said.
The Anti-Vehicle Lifting Cell (ABLC) identified the deceased as Faizan Sajjad and claimed that he was a `notorious car-lifter`.
AVLC SSP Bashir Ahmed Brohi said that the encounter took place on a dirt road when the police signalled two suspicious motorcyclists to stop. He said that another suspect, Sikandar Ali, managed to escape.
The police claimed to have recovered one pistol and a snatched motorcycle The AVLC chief said that Sajjad was a `habitual offender` and arrested several times. There were 15 FIRs against him, he added.
