MIRPURKHAS: A gang of dacoits opened indiscriminate firing on people to escape arrest when shopkeepers and onlookers foiled their attempt to rob a pesticide dealer sitting at his shop at the old Khipro bus stand near Pak Colony on Wednesday evening.

The firing left four persons, including one of the dacoits, wounded.

Five armed men riding two motorcycles struck at the shop and stormed into it to rob the dealer of his money but other shopkeepers and onlookers foiled their attempt. Finding themselves trapped, the dacoits opened indiscriminate firing leaving Gulfam, Mohammad Siddique and Allah Dino wounded. One of their accomplices, later identified as Sulaiman aka Zubair, also sustained bullet wounds. He was arrested by the Gharibabad police but his other associates managed to flee.