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KARACHI: Police arrested on Tuesday the accused who robbed Amal Umer’s family and managed to flee the night she died after getting hit by a stray bullet.The suspect identified as Khalid was detained amidst an encounter with personnel of Artillery Maidan Police Station, revealed the Karachi police chief Dr Amir Ahmed Sheikh."Weapons, mobile phones and a rickshaw were seized from his possession," he stated.It was further revealed that the suspect -a rickshaw driver from Karachi’s Hijrat Colony, has confessed to his association in at least seven incidents of robbery around the city. The police official further revealed: "Khalid's accomplice, Shahzad, was killed during a police encounter on August 13."On August 13, Amal had fallen prey to a stray bullet that was aiming to hit the robber who had mugged Amal’s family a while earlier on the same night in Karachi’s Akhtar Colony area. 

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