14 Karachi target killers caught in Murree while enjoying holidays

  • September 18, 2013, 3:24 pm
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Murree, Sept 18 (Online): 14 target killers hailing from Karachi have been arrested from the hot tourists spot, Murree, officials said.

Media reports earlier had revealed d that dozens target killers of MQM and others belong to militant wings of various political parties have escaped from Karachi to abroad and other parts of the country.

Police on Wednesday arrested 14 target killers hailed from Karachi from the hot tourists spot, Murree, officials said.

The Punjab Police has raided various hotels in the Murree city where killers have been residing. These killers, out of whom many are also involved in robberies and extortion collection, had possibly fled from Karachi, the port city of the country, before the start of the operation.

The law enforcers in the eastern province of Punjab have put the police on red alert following the Karachi operation after the reports that many of the criminals might have entered into different cities of the province.

The police has shifted the target killers to an unknown spots for investigations.

Police and Rangers have arrested hundreds of hoodlums so far in their ongoing operation in Karachi, which has been suffering from the lawlessness for last many years.