{"id":37287,"date":"2026-01-23T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=37287"},"modified":"2026-01-23T09:00:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:00:25","slug":"police-arrest-injured-suspect-after-alleged-shootout-in-rawalpindi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=37287","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest injured suspect after alleged shootout in Rawalpindi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Police in Rawalpindi say one shooting suspect has been arrested and a stolen car and weapons recovered after an alleged encounter in the New Town area.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, two men travelling in a car opened fire on a police team when officers signalled them to stop. During the exchange of fire, one suspect was injured and arrested, while the second managed to escape.<\/p>\n<p>Read: Cop sets youth on fire over altercation<\/p>\n<p>The arrested suspect has been identified as Adnan. Police say a car stolen two months ago from the New Town area was recovered from his possession.<\/p>\n<p>A police constable, identified as Umair, was also struck by a bullet during the incident but remained unharmed due to wearing a bulletproof jacket.<\/p>\n<p>Senior police officers reached the scene following the incident, and a search operation is underway in the surrounding area to arrest the absconding suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The injured suspect was shifted to the hospital for medical treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the arrested man was a known offender and had previously been involved in several car theft cases in Rawalpindi and Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Rawalpindi Chief Police Officer Syed Khalid Mehmood Hamdani praised the police team for their response, saying those who endanger public safety and attack law enforcement will not escape legal action.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Rawalpindi say one shooting suspect has been arrested and a stolen car and weapons recovered after an alleged encounter in the New Town area. According to police, two men travelling in a car opened fire on a police team when officers signalled them to stop. During the exchange of fire, one suspect was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}