OKARA: The gunshots of his two unidentified accomplices killed a gunman late on Sunday, according to Saddar police.

A night-patrolling squad, led by Inspector Mahr Muhammad Ismail, was on 28/2L Road when three motorcyclists were signalled to stop over near 25/2L, but they began shooting at the police team.

The retaliated in selfdefence. The firing went on for a while, and when the suspects` weapons fell silent, the police located an unidentified dead with a weapon on him. The accomplices escaped in the middle of the night.

The police shifted the body to the DHQ City Hospital mortuary for a postmortem examination and lodged a case undersections 302, 324, 353, 186, 399, and 401 of the Pakistan Penal Code.

Later, the deceased was identified as Amir, alias Amree, of Toba Tek Singh.

He was involved in the killing of constable Muhammad Asif Raza and 12 other heinous crime cases.

A police team is trying to trace the other two suspects.

KILLED: A man shot dead a woman in her house village of Othwal Khalsa on GugeraJandraka Road.

The police said Akhtar Bibi was at home when Asad and Amir came there and Amir allegedly shot her dead. A few days ago, the suspects had a scuffle with Akhtar Bibi and in revenge, he killed her.

On the report of Bibi`s father Sakhawat Ali, the Gogera police registered a case.