Updated at: 1425 PST, Sunday, October 04, 2009

KARACHI: Police and some criminal elements traded fire in Lyari Kalakot area here, which resulted in the death of two persons including one police constable, while the area still continued resounding with the sound of heavy firing.

The police encounter with the criminal elements in Lyari Kalakot area started at a time when the police raiding the central accused of Lyari gang war’s warehouse in Singulane area of Lyari recovering huge arms cache arrested three accused.

Police said that reinforcements from all over the city have been called for, following the eruption of firing in the area, while the Rangers have also reached the scene of incident.
The recovered arms included one LMG, two Repeaters and Kalashnikovs besides TT pistols.