SAHIWAL, March 19: Six armed bandits deprived the commission agent of his car in the Grain Market here on Friday.

Gulzar Mahmood Khan was present in his office along with his friends when the armed bandits stepped in. The intruders held them at pistol point, snatched keys of the car, locked them in a room and drove away with the vehicle (FDI-5614).

Grain Market police have registered a case. Meanwhile, the Motorway police could not find any clue to the bandits who had deprived bus passengers of Rs1.9 million on Thursday.

BUTCHERED: A teenaged student on Friday was butchered after being sodomized by some unknown culprits. Shahid (14) had gone to learn the Holy Quran from where he was kidnapped by some unknown culprits. The miscreants sodomised him and then butchered him to conceal their crime. Later, they threw his body in the field of Chak 73/5-L.

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