ISLAMABAD: A suspect was arrested after he was injured during an encounter with the police, and his two other accomplices were also arrested, police said.
The police said three persons riding on a motorcycle appeared from Dhok Ramzania when a police team was engaged in snap checking at Jobad Road near railway line.
On suspicion the police team signaled them to stop, however, the riders started indiscriminate firing at the officials.
The police team took cover behind the official vehicle and inside the adjacent ditch.
During the firing from the suspects a couple of bullets hit the police vehicle and fortunately, the personnel remained unhurt due to protective gears.
The police also retaliated and fired in self-defense. In response the suspects made an attempt to escape from the spot, but their vehicle met an accident.
Shortly they escaped and hid in the nearby bushes and fired at the police. After sometime when the weapons of the suspects got silent and the police started searching. The police found one of the suspects, injured lying near the motorcycle.
Later the police found another suspect hiding in the bushes at some distance and captured him.
The third suspect was spotted near a block-factory and later the police also arrested him.
Police have registered a case under sections 324, 353, 186, 411, 427 and 34 of Pakistan Penal Code along with sections 13 and 20 of Arms Ordinance.