MIRPURKHAS, Nov 15: Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested a dacoit and impounded a car used in a robbery committed by six bandits including an unknown woman in the house of a DSP of Karachi in the jurisdiction of Satellite town police station.

Police said that they had also recovered unlicensed arms from the car.

Five gunmen and a woman struck at DSP Kambho Khan Mari’s house on Saturday. They forced into the house and robbed the inmates of gold ornaments and thousands of rupees cash after holding inmates hostage at gunpoint, police sources said.

When two inmates constable Jumman Marri and Ameer Haider resisted they were beaten up. After the robbers fled with their loot in a car, Marri informed police, they said.

Four robbers and a woman got down the car near a petrol pump and escaped before police at Ratanabad check-post stopped the vehicle. Police arrested the driver and found three unlicensed TT pistols in the car.

The injured were taken to civil hospital.

The arrested driver disclosed the name of his accomplices during interrogation, said DPO Muneer Ahmed Shaikh. He told journalists that the dacoits introduced themselves as activists of Muttahida Quami Movement when they committed the offence.

He said that they belonged to upper Sindh. Mirpurkhas police were chasing the fleeing dacoits in collaboration with Hyderabad police, he said adding that the car’s number plate was fake and a motorcycle was also used in the crime.