KOHAT: The police killed an armed robber after he critically injured a constable in a bazaar here on Saturday.

Officials said the police surrounded the robber, Abbas Shah of Shiekhan village, near a bakery. They said the robber was brandishing a pistol and asked the police to give him a safe passage.

However, the officials said when a constable, Zar Badshah, who was part of the police’s rider squad, asked him to surrender he opened fire, leaving him injured. They said another policeman killed him with several shots of a Kalashnikov.

The wounded constable was shifted to the KDA Teaching Hospital, wherefrom he was referred to a Peshawar hospital in precarious condition.

The body of the robber was also moved to the hospital for autopsy. Later, it was handed over to relatives.

The police said the robber had taken away Rs40,000 from a shop in Miankhel Bazaar at gunpoint on Friday.

They said he again came to the same shop on Saturday, but fled on his motorcycle when the police’s rider squad tried to arrest him.

The policemen then gave him a chase and killed him in the main bazaar.

The police have registered a case of the incident and started further investigations.

Published in Dawn, May 8th, 2022