SHEIKHUPURA, Dec 3: No clue to the Rs58 million dacoity at the Punjab Provincial Cooperative Bank's City branch has been found even after the passage of five days.

Some unidentified bandits had taken away gold ornaments worth Rs58 million after making way into the strong room by cutting it with a gas cutter.

Security guard Ishaq of nearby Runeeka Minara village was found slaughtered in his bed when bank manager Tauqir Baber along with police unlocked the main entrance. Another security guard, Adam Khan of Nawazabad village, Lucki Marwat district, was found missing.

The B-Division police said that a police party comprising ASI Boota and five constables had already rushed to Nawazabad village in the NWFP. City ASP Ijaz Ahmad when contacted said Lucki Marwat DPO Farrukh was extending help to the raiding team. He said the Lucki Marwat police along with the B-Division police team were conducting raids to arrest the missing security guard.

The family of the guard claimed that he had not come back from Sheikhupura, the ASP said. Supervisor Gul Zaman, on whose recommendation Adam Khan got job in Grey-hound security services, had also gone to the NWFP to trace him.

Grey-hound's MD Col Saeed (retired) said the supervisor had contacted elders, legislators and influential people of the area who assured that Adam would be handed over to police if he came back to his house.

Bank's GM Raja Khuda Baksh, who came from Lahore, said the looted gold ornaments were insured with the Cooperative Society Insurance as per bank's policy. Bank manager Tauqir Baber said the looted ornaments belonged to 458 customers who got loans against the jewellery.

Riaz, another security service official, said that it was apprehended that the bandits might have kidnapped and later killed security guard Adam Khan. Meanwhile, DPO Shahid Iqbal said that we were keep in touch with the Lucki Marwat police and hoped that the bandits would soon be arrested.