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GUJRAT, March 1: Dacoits on Friday made off with Rs1.8 million in cash from the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP), Ghalla Mandi Branch, Lalamusa.
Reports revealed four dacoits stormed into the bank at 2:30pm, held up the employees and collected Rs1.2 million from the safe. They also snatched Rs0.6 million in cash from the cashier and escaped.
Eye witnesses claimed the dacoits held up the two security guards outside the main gate and directed them to open the gate. They snatched rifle from one of them and took them inside the bank, they said, adding the intruders took hardly five minutes before fleeing.
One of the employees, later, informed the City police station where the official told him that all the staff policemen including the SHO were on duty at the Zahoor Elahi Stadium, Gujrat, for the benefit match between Pakistan and the DCO 11.
The police reached the spot later and recovered the guard’s gun of from a street. However, they could not find any clue to the culprits till last reports came in.
Investigation is underway.
ARRESTED: The local police on Friday claimed to have arrested a proclaimed offender with a light machine gun.
Headed by SHO Raza Awan, the Lalamusa Saddar team conducted a raid in Jhelum and arrested Mirza Tariq.
The PO had reportedly shot dead Ghulam Ahmad in Shah Sarmast, Lalamusa, on June 6, 2001.
Meanwhile, the team also arrested five people Khurram, Kabir, Wajid, Munir and Shabbir with booty and illicit weapons.
