Citizen kills alleged dacoit in Boat Basin

KARACHI: An alleged dacoit was killed in the Boat Basin area of Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh province after a citizen offered resistance during a dacoity bid, ARY News reported on Tuesday.

Initially, police was quoted as saying that a man riding on a vehicle opened fire on a motorcyclist in the Boat Basin area of the city. “Before opening fire, the two sides exchanged a heated argument that led to this unfortunate incident,” said the authorities while narrating an eye-witnesses account.

The deceased, whose identity is yet to be ascertained, was shifted to a local hospital for medico-legal formalities.

However, after the probe into the incident, it was revealed that the one who died in it was an alleged dacoit.

SSP South said that the motorcyclist, who died in the incident, was an alleged dacoit and was killed when the vehicle driver opened fire on him in return.

The citizen who resisted the bid has also approached the police narrating his side of the story, he informed.