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GUJRANWALA, Oct 6: A five-member gang of robbers-cum-murderers, including the ring leader, escaped from a private van when they were being escorted by police to Wazirabad tehsil kutchery on Monday.
Wazirabad Saddar police had arrested the gangsters a few weeks back and detained them in the central jail.
The police were escorting the outlaws, including their ring leader Abbas alias Abbaso, to Wazirabad by the private van to produce them before court. Near Nizamabad on GT Road, the outlaws started thrashing a police guard, snatched his official rifle and escaped.
The presence of Saddar SI Ashfaq Ahmad on the vehicle also could not prevent the safe escape of the outlaws.
DPO Saud Aziz, additional SP Shahid Hanif and Wazirabad ASP Waqar Ahmad Chohan along with a heavy police contingent hastened to the spot and directed the raiding teams to chase the outlaws and arrest them. The raiding parties, led by the Wazirabad ASP, besieged the Chenab bela where the outlaws reported to have taken shelter.
Meanwhile, the police guard on duty was taken into custody.
ARRESTED: A woman, who slaughtered her teenaged son with the help of her lover to conceal her sin in Kamoki a few days ago, was arrested here on Monday.
Khurshid Bibi, the mother of seven children, developed relations with her neighbour Abdul Aziz, the father of half a dozen children. Asghar had spotted his mother sitting with Aziz in the house and informed his father Nazir about the episode.
To conceal their crime, the woman and her lover slaughtered Asghar when he was asleep.
They cut his body into pieces and buried it in the compound of the house.
They both escaped when other family members suspected their involvement in the missing of the boy.
However, police have arrested them and a case has been registered against them. During interrogation, she came clean that she had slaughtered her son with the help of her lover.
SHOT DEAD: A shopkeeper was shot dead by another shopkeeper over a monetary dispute at Chorigaran Bazaar here on Monday.
Shabbir Ahmad was present in his shop when Ayub Tedi came there and opened fire on him after exchanging harsh words. He died on the spot.
