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| August 30, 2006 | Wednesday | Sha'aban 5, 1427 |
Coach attacked by bandits, driver killed
SUKKUR, Aug 29: Three people were killed and 10 others, including a woman, injured in separate incidents in Kandhkot, Sukkur and Ubauro on Tuesday. In the first incident, highwaymen opened fire on a passenger coach near the Fakhar Rice Mill around Kandhkot on the midnight of Monday and Tuesday.
When some passenger coaches and trucks on way to Karachi from Punjab reached near the Fakhar Rice Mill, the bandits intercepted it and started robbing passengers of cash, ornaments, mobile phones and other valuables.
The outlaws opened fire on a coach when its driver tried to sped away. A bullet hit driver Mashooq, son of Mohammad Qudoos Pathan, killing him on the spot and injuring eight passengers. The criminals fled after firing.
The injured included Ellahi Bux, Abdul Qayoom, Nadir Ali and Ghulam Akbar Pathan. Names of the rest injured could not be ascertained.
On information, police reached the spot and shifted the body and injured to Kandhkot and Shikarpur hospitals.
Later, the body of the driver was sent to Peshawar.
Police was chasing the dacoits, but no case was registered till filing this report.
In another incident, one person was killed and his wife was injured seriously when the couple resisted a bid to theft in Bhoosa Lane here on Monday night.
Three armed thieves had entered the house of one Niaz Ali Gadani and tried to rob households. When they were busy collecting items, inmates woke up and offered resistance. The outlaws opened fire killing Niaz Ali Gadani and injuring his wife Kousar Perveen.
Later, Kousar Perveen was shifted to the Sukkur Civil Hospital.
Police have registered a case against three unknown armed thieves, but no arrest was reported.
Niaz Ali Gadani was said to be an active worker of the People’s Party.
In the third incident, an alleged thief was killed in an exchange of firing between thieves and villagers in village Din Shah near Sukkur on Monday night.
A group of armed thieves entered a village, barged into the house of Din Shah to rob the households. The inmates woke up and offered resistance, an exchange of fire took place between the thieves and inmates, leaving an alleged thief dead on the spot.
Meanwhile, dacoits injured a man in village Abdul Jabbar Arain near Ubauro early on Tuesday morning.
Some armed dacoits entered the village, barged into the house of Aslam Arain, overpowered the inmates on gunpoint, robbed the households, and later unfasten six buffaloes.
When Aslam Arain offered resistance, the dacoits injured him with the butt of a rifle.
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