Man shot dead, wife 'kidnapped' by cousins in Karachi.

KARACHI -- A man was shot dead while his wife was kidnapped from a house by armed assailants in Indus village, Gulshan-e-Maymar. The police later shot and injured the fleeing suspects in an encounter, rescuing the woman.

According to Gulshan-e-Maymar SHO Shahid Hussain, the police had initially believed that the man, identified as 35-year-old Siraj Lehri Ghulam Shah, was gunned down in a robbery bid. However, they later discovered that it was a kidnapping attempt.

Hussain stated that the police were informed about the incident through the Madadgar 15 helpline, following which they arrived at the scene and had an exchange of fire with the fleeing suspects.

Two suspects and two passersby were injured in the encounter, with the police arresting the wounded suspects and taking the kidnapped woman, Shehrbano, into their custody. Two pistols and a dagger were also seized from the possession of the assailants.

The deceased and the injured were shifted to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, where the suspects were identified as Zahoor Ahmed, 50, and Saifullah, 40, while the wounded citizens were identified as Rab Nawaz, 50 and Bahadur Ali, 42.

Per Hussain, Shehrbano had revealed in her statement that she had married Shah against her family's will and the arrested men were her cousins, who had attempted to kidnap her.

Meanwhile, the suspects, who hailed from...