Robbers kill 4, loot Rs20m prize bonds

Published September 1, 2003

FAISALABAD, Aug 31: Dacoits shot dead two prize bond dealers and their two gunmen and took away Rs20 million prize bonds in Sanatpura, Jhang Bazaar, here on Sunday.

Mirza Dilshad Baig and Mirza Aslam Baig, the brothers of union council Nazim Mirza Shaukat Baig, were going in a van when they were intercepted by four armed men riding a car at Sanatpura. The bandits killed both the dealers and their gunmen and ran away with the bags containing prize bonds.

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