20 January 2005	Thursday	09 Zilhaj 1425

LAHORE, Jan 19: Dacoits shot dead a watchmen in the Defence Housing Society on Wednesday. Hazrat Khan told the police that his brother Rehmat Khan worked as a watchman in Block Z of the Society.

He said the watchman spotted five dacoits trying to enter a house and asked them to surrender. The miscreants opened fire on him and escaped. He sustained critical injuries and died on way to hospital.

The body was sent to the city mortuary for autopsy. A case was registered with no arrest. Four dacoits stormed into the house of Zareen Ahmad in Block B of Jauhar Town and made off with cash and gold worth Rs500,000.

Yet four more gun-toting men burst into the house of Abdul Jabbar in Faisal Town and took away cash, gold and valuables worth Rs100,000. Cash and calling cards worth hundreds of thousands of rupees were looted from a PCO owned by the son of a former DIG office employee.

MURDER: A man was shot dead over an old enmity in Liaquatabad on Wednesday. Noor Zaman told the police that his brother Aleem Khan was shot dead by Shah Gull and accomplices. He said his brother had an enmity with the attackers back in his native village in the NWFP. The body was removed to the mortuary. A case was registered with no arrest.

ACCIDENT: Two people were killed in separate accidents in the city on Wednesday. Bashir was run over by a rashly driven bus outside cantonment courts in North Cantonment. A man, unidentified so far, about 24, was hit by a motorcyclist at Bhatti Gate. He died on the way to the Mayo Hospital.