SUKKUR: The Shikarpur police on Saturday claimed to have arrested a suspected dacoit after an encounter with him at a section of Labano link road, within the limits of the Lakhi Ghulam Shah police station.

They said a police team had gone to a place after receiving a tip-off about presence of a gang there.

They said the suspects opened fire as soon as the police team reached there.

The fire was returned and, as a result, one of the suspects, later identified as Ghulam Abbas Hakro, was wounded.