One of the four suspects who allegedly gang-raped a married woman and her sister during a dacoity at Kamalia was killed on Thursday in an “encounter” with Saddar police.

A press release said that a police patrolling party signaled four motorcyclists, but they opened fire on them.

It said that the suspects took positions in a sugarcane field and kept on firing on police which returned the fire.

Following the crossfire, the attackers fled away, leaving behind a critically injured suspect who was arrested by police.

The injured suspect was identified as Waris Ali of Chak 731-GB, who was one of the four men accused of gang-rape of two women on April 10 night in an outhouse at Mouza Jhallar Sagla. Waris later died while being shifted to Kamalia THQ Hospital.

The police claimed he succumbed to his bullet injuries, inflicted by his own fleeing accomplices.

Source: Dawn