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Police kill 4 militants in Pakistan's Karachi

Xinhua, March 27, 2015 Adjust font size:

Police in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi killed four militants during an exchange of firing on Friday afternoon, local media reported.

The cops conducted a search operation on an intelligence tip- off of presence of the terrorists in Gulshan-e-Maymar area of Karachi, the capital city of the country's south Sindh province.

When police raided the militants' hideout, they opened fire at the cops engaging them into a gun battle, which resulted in the killing of four insurgents.

Police took custody of the bodies of the militants who were identified as workers of a banned outfit.

The cops said that the militants were involved in activities of target killings, bomb blasts and extortion in the city.

Arms and ammunition were also recovered from the hideout of the militants.

The search operations of the kind were launched in various areas of Karachi, following a bomb attack at a police vehicle in the city that killed two cops and injured 13 others.

Targeted operations by Police and Rangers' forces have also been going in the city since September 2013 under the directives of federal government against criminals already identified by federal, military and civilian agencies. Endi