GUJRANWALA, June 4: Robbers looted a property dealer and also took away a car and two motorcycles in three strikes in and around the city here on Sunday. Reports said that property dealer Abdul Wahid was on his way by his motorcycle when two armed men intercepted him in People’s Colony. They snatched from him Rs35,000 in cash, a mobile phone and drove away with his bike.

Five highwaymen stopped Arif and his friends of Jalalpur Jattan when they were on the way by their car (LWH-6003) near Kamoke. At pistol point, outlaws deprived them of Rs44,800, four cell phones, gold rings and chains and also drove away with their car.

Similarly, three armed robbers intercepted Basharat Ali Shah near Madan village when he was on his way by motorcycle (GAR-416). Outlaws relieved him of Rs20,000 in cash and also took away his bike.

GIRLS KIDNAPPED: Three girls were kidnapped in separate incidents here on Sunday.

Reports said that seven vagabonds in Shaheenabad abducted ‘K’, the daughter of Nazir.

While ‘R’, the daughter of Ghulam Mustafa of Baghbanpura, was kidnapped by three men and some half-a-dozen outlaws in Khabeki village abducted Riaz Ahmad’s daughter ‘K’.

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