Suspect in horrific murder of Multan boy killed in Bahawalpur police shootout

BAHAWALPUR – A nominated suspect in the first information report (FIR) of ‘Multan boy murder case’ was killed in alleged police encounter at Northern Bypass Jhangi Wala Road.
According to police sources, two motorcycles were intercepted at police picket on Northen Bypass Jhangi Wali Road on suburbs of Bahawalpur City. They suspects opened indiscriminate firing at police personnel. When police party retaliated fire, one of the suspects was killed while his accomplices managed to escape from the scene.
Tauqeer Abbas was killed in an encounter with the Crime Control Department (CCD) police in Bahawalpur. The suspect was reportedly travelling on a motorcycle with an accomplice along Bahawalpur’s Northern Bypass after escaping from Multan police custody and was killed during encounter with the CCD Bahawalpur. A spokesperson for CCD Bahawalpur confirmed the death of the Tauqeer Abbas in police encounter while fleeing from police custody.
They said that later, the suspect who was killed in police encounter was identified as Tauqeer who was nominated in the FIR of Multan boy car crushing murder case. Earlier, he was arrested by the Multan police, but he managed to escape from the police custody. However, later on he was killed in an alleged police encounter in Bahawalpur when he, and his accomplice, opened fire on the police team in an attempt to flee the scene.