UMERKOT, Nov 17: A group of armed men forced into a shop belonging to a member of minority community in the busy area of the town and allegedly took away goods worth Rs600,000, according to an FIR lodged by one Sandeep on Monday.

The complainant said that four armed men forced into his general store after torturing him, loaded the goods onto a tractor-trolley and fled.

Local Pakistan People’s Party leader Lekhraj Mal said that it was the second incident in a week in which shops of minorities had been attacked and good taken away.

He said that law and order situation was deteriorating in the town.

COTTON BURNT: Heaps of cotton stored at the lands of union council nazim Sabho Ilyas Rajar caught fire on Monday morning, reducing hundred of mounds of the crop to ashes. Later, fire brigade put off the fire.

LAND DISTRIBUTED: DCO Ghulam Akbar Laghari and other revenue officials distributed some 250 acres of state land among 40 landless women of Umerkot taluka on Monday.