SAHIWAL (Dunya News) - Three suspects involved in abducting and murdering a 14-year-old boy after subjecting him to sexual assault were killed in an alleged police encounter in Ghala Mandi Police jurisdiction here on Thursday.
A policeman was injured in the shootout whereas two accomplices of the suspects escaped during the encounter. Police have launched a manhunt for their arrest.
The suspects have been identified as Shaukat, Adnan and Shoaib. Their bodies were shifted to hospital for medicolegal procedure.
According to police, the suspected outlaws had kidnapped a boy identified as Hasan from a village and raped him. The accused later killed the boy and threw his dead body in fields, which was recovered by police.
With the recovery of the dead body, police launched a search operation and arrested the suspects. The suspects were being escorted to an area for the arrest of their accomplices when police came under fire from the firing of the suspects’ accomplices. In their defence, police retaliated against their firing, killing three suspects.