SWABI: A proclaimed offender was killed and three others were arrested in an encounter here on Monday, claimed police. Talking to mediapersons, district police officer Sajjad Khan said that the encounter took place in Kotha village.

He said that personnel of Zaida, Topi, Chota Lahor and Swabi police stations took part in the raid after a tip-off that the outlaws were hiding in a house of one Abid Ali in the village.

The DPO said that the house owner escaped the area.

An official, who was part of the raiding party, said that the police had been in the hunt for the proclaimed offenders for a long time, and finally they got traced on a tip-off.

He said that Majid Amin, belonging to Batakara village, was killed on the spot. The official said that the killed outlaw was wanted to police in several cases of heinous nature. The police official identified the arrested suspects as Afan Khan, Rehman Khan and Mohammad Rashid.Correspondent