HYDERABAD, June 29: The Tando Mohammad Khan police claimed to have arrested three dacoits and recovered weapons from them as the encounter with dacoits entered its third day on Saturday.

The police said they arrested Mukhtar Gumb alias Bhutto, Ghulam Rasool Gumb and Nawab Khaskheli and recovered a Kalashnikov, a gun, 12 cartridges and 12 bullets from their possession.

The police said the gang is led by Ghafoor Chang, and the encounter was still going on in the sugarcane fields in the Shafi Gumb village.

A landlord, Mir Noman Talpur, was kidnapped on June 22 while he was returning home in his car from the Bijar Talpur village. Two of his cousins were also waylaid by the dacoits but they were set free.

Talpur’s cousin, Mohammad Ali, had lodged a case at the Tando Mohammad Khan police station.

The police tried to trace the whereabouts of Talpur and came to learn that he had been shot dead by the dacoits near the Mohabbat Khan Bhurgari Goth in union council Tando Saindad, located 10kms east of the Tando Mohammad police station, on Friday.

Soon an encounter began in which a dacoit, who remained unidentified, was killed.