SIALKOT:As many as four armed dacoits were killed by the firing of their two fleeing companions during an encounter with Sialkot police near Muzaffarpur Phaatak locality on Uggoki-Sialkot Road here early in the dense foggy morning on Monday.
According to the local senior police officials, as many as six unknown dacoits were looting the local people by setting up a “Daaku Naaka” there, when a police reached there. On seeing police, accused opened fire. A silence was there when police retaliated.
Officials said that four dacoits were killed by the bullets fired by their two fleeing accused companions.
Police shifted dead bodies to Govt. Allama Iqbal Memorial Teaching Hospital Sialkot for autopsy.
Police officials said that the slain accused dacoits were still to be identified.
It was worth mentioning that these killings of four dacoits by bullets fired their two accused companions during an encounter with Sialkot police were occurred very next day after the nasty incident, in which six unknown armed dacoits had snatched three accused killers Imran, Safiyan and Tazeem from Muradpur police custody while attacking on police van on Khawaja Safdar Road Sialkot city on Sunday, when police was shifting accused to Muradpur police station after getting their three-day long physical remand from a local magisterial court in Sialkot.
Some police officials said that these were the same six accused who snatched three accused from police custody on Sunday in Sialkot by attacking on police van.
Now, four out of six accused were killed in this shoot out by the bullets fired by their two escaping accused companions.
Police are investigating.