The PIB Colony Police killed a suspected peddler, identified as Naem Shah, during an encounter at Jhanda Chowk near Essa Nagri graveyard in Karachi, provincial capital of Sindh on June 7, reports The Express Tribune. His accomplice, however, managed to escape. The drug peddler succumbed to injuries while being taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. According to SP Gulshan Iqbal Maroof Usman, the deceased was wanted for nine attempted murder cases, drug peddling and illegal weapon possession. Police also arrested Haider Shah, the father of the deceased drug peddler.