CHAKWAL, Aug 27: Cash and valuable items worth over Rs10 million were looted after a gang of 30 armed robbers struck at three houses consecutively in Thoa Bahadur village.

The Saddar police said the robbers came to the village in a truck and first entered the house of Dil Bahar Khan.

After ransacking the building, the culprits held up the inmates and took them to the house of Malik Khan. Completing their looting spree there, they also forced Mr Khan’s family to accompany them and raided the house of Tajamul Hussain. The outlaws amassed cash and valuables and then locked as many as 18 members of the three families in a room and escaped. DSP Saddar circle Chakwal Raja Tahir Bashir told the newsmen on Sunday that the police was confident to arrest the accused.—Correspondent