The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) has exposed presence of a target killers’ group operating in the city under the veil of street criminals.
DIG CTD Asif Aijaz Shaikh has disclosed that the mastermind of the organized gang, Syed Hussain Moosvi, staying and operating from abroad.
DIG CTD has said that the group had started targeted killings in November last year and the workers of a specific group were made target. “Two members of the group when arrested declared them as street criminals,” the DIG said.
“We investigated them and booked them under the charge of targeted killings,” CTD officer said. He said, two arrested target killers have confessed killing 13 persons. “There is a group of four target killers, and they have 24 facilitators, we are working to arrest them,” DIG CTD said.