Updated Thursday, May 8, 2008 0:00 am TWN, AP

Police, gangs fight gun battle in Pakistan city

KARACHI, Pakistan -- Pakistani police were embroiled in a deadly gunbattle with gangsters Wednesday in a notorious slum district of the country’s biggest city. Police in Karachi sent 100 officers and four armored vehicles into the city’s Lyari district Wednesday in a bid to arrest underworld kingpins who have been fighting a bloody turf war, Lyari police chief Imran Shaukat said.

But officers met with stiff resistance from gang members armed with automatic weapons and hand grenades. Shaukat said there were “a few casualties, some fatal.” He said at least one gangster was killed and police also suffered casualties.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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