HYDERABAD: A policeman received bullet injuries when unknown assailants opened fire on him in the area of Makki Shah police station on Monday.

Reports said that two policemen were performing their duty of snap checking near the old railway crossing of Latifabad Unit-7.

When they signalled a rickshaw driver to stop, three suspects sitting in the vehicle opened fire on them hitting one policeman, Imtiaz Ali Panhwar. He has been operated upon at the Liaquat University Hospital (LUH) city branch.

All three suspects fled the scene along with the service gun of the wounded policeman.

Panhwar was posted in Madadgar police.

The rickshaw driver has been taken into custody, the police said, adding that the suspects had engaged the rickshaw from Gharib Nawaz bridge for Al Falah Bank located in Latifabad Unit 7.