Private clinic looted

Published November 25, 2005

NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Nov 24: Five armed men took away expensive surgical equipment and other items worth Rs500,000 from a private hospital in Kandiaro town, after confining three employees in a room, on Wednesday night.

The armed men entered into a private clinic of Dr Rahim Bux, tied the hands of three employees Saheb Mallah, Sajid Mallah and Faqeer Mohammad, and locked them in a room and took away costly machines and other apparatus.

The Kandiaro police said that sniffer dogs were arranged and police had gone after the bandits.

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