location: Karachi
notes: Law-enforcement agencies after receiving information that militants were smuggling explosives from Balochistan, intercepted a car near Lucky Pahari on Hub river road,when they were stopped they attacked with heavy weaponry.Two police officers and four militants were injured in the exchange of fire. The 4 militants died in the hospital.The militants were from the Mohmand group of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The chief and the deputy chief of the group were killed in the encounter.
target_text: location: Karachi, fatalities: 4