SIALKOT, Dec 20: More than 150 villagers, including traders of Glotiyan village, demonstrated and blocked traffic on the main Daska-Glotiyan-Gujranwala Road on Saturday to protest the incident of robbery in their locality last night.

The protesters blocked traffic for more than an hour by burning tyres and kept raising slogans against police. They said the Daska police had failed to check incidence of robbery in their locality.

However, a police contingent, headed by senior officials, reached the troubled spot and assured the villagers that they would arrest the culprits without delay.

A gang of 15 dacoits came to the Glotiyan morr in two trucks late on Friday night. They held up area’s watchman Muhammad Khan and beat him along with some of the shopkeepers.

They broke panes of several shops and took away pesticides, VCD and CD players, cloth and commodities of daily use worth of Rs1.1 million.

The affected traders told newsmen that the some gangsters had made the lives of people of Glotiyan village tough.

They said they had informed the police about the high incidence of crime in the locality, but no prompt action had ever been taken by them.

Meanwhile, Daska Saddar police have registered a case against unidentified people.