LAHORE, Aug 20: Robbers killed three people, including a retired railway employee, and made off with cash, gold ornaments and valuables, worth around Rs3.5 million in the city on Tuesday.

Shahid told police that four gunmen stormed into his house at Railway Colony in Mughalpura. He said the intruders tied him and his father Abdul Majeed, the retired railway employee, up and started collecting valuables.

Shahid said his father tried to raise an alarm and the miscreants put pieces of cloth into their mouths. He added the gangsters collected cash in Pakistani and foreign currency, gold ornaments and valuables, worth around Rs350,000, and escaped.

Shahid said after some time, he succeeded to untie his rope but by that time, his father had died.

Majeed has left behind three children. The body was sent to the city mortuary for autopsy. A case was registered with no arrest.

Schoolteacher Tariq Masood of Shamma Road in Millat Park, along with his wife Fauzia had gone to his in-laws. On return, Fauzia told police, three armed men intercepted their motorcycle near their house.

Fauzia said the gangsters snatched gold ornaments from her and took away Rs150,000 from her husband. She said the robbers shot at and injured her husband when he put up resistance, and escaped.

Some passers-by were taking the injured man to a nearby hospital when he died.

Tariq is survived by a wife and four children. The body was sent to the city mortuary for autopsy. A case was registered with no arrest.

The manager of a construction company, Zubair A. Khan, told police that he left his house in Officers Colony, Factory Area, to drop his daughter to school in the morning. He said his wife Haleema, 38, was alone at the house.

Khan said that when he returned home in the evening, he found his wife strangled in her bedroom and all rooms ransacked.

He claimed cash, gold jewellery and valuables worth Rs200,000 were missing from the house. The body was sent to the city mortuary for autopsy.

No case has so far been registered.

Meanwhile, four gunmen stormed into a house in-Aurangzeb Block in Garden Town late night, took away cash, saving certificates and gold worth Rs2.5 million and a car.

However, the Model Town division police SP claimed the car was found abandoned nearby. He claimed only cash and gold worth Rs 00,000 had been taken away from the house as the saving certificates did not include in the loss.

Asif and his wife were on their way home when two gunmen held them up in Wahdat Colony and made off with cash and gold jewellery worth Rs50,000. Constable Abdul Ghaffar of the Crimes Investigation Department (CID) was intercepted by two armed men on main Boulevard in Gulberg who drove away with his official vehicle (No KB-786).

Two gangsters stormed into the oil agency of Hafiz Saleem at Jaya Musa in Shahdara and took away Rs25,000.

A car (No LOD-7286) was stolen from Defence Housing Society.

BODY FOUND: The beheaded body of a man in his early 30s was found from a drain on Baradari Road in Shahdara on Tuesday.