GUJRANWALA, Oct 22: Robbers plundered cash and valuables worth thousands of rupees from the house of a landlord and a clinic, besides depriving a man of his motorcycle in and around the city on Friday.

Reports said three armed men forced their entry into landlord Muhammad Bashir's house at Kasoki village and held up the inmates. They collected Rs25,000 in cash, gold jewellery and other valuables, besides a gun, and escaped.

Three robbers entered Dr Arshad Javed's clinic on the Nomania Road. They snatched Rs10,000 in cash from the doctor and Rs80,000 from patients and fled. At a poultry feed office at Khan Payara village, three robbers held up farmer Mian Muhammad Rafiq and his servants from whom they snatched Rs100,000 in cash and other articles.

Meanwhile, three robbers stopped Muhammad Shafiq Mughal and deprived him of Rs1,000 in cash and his motorcycle (GAP-7785). Police have registered cases and are investigating.

KILLED: The race between two motorcycle-rickshaws claimed the life of a ninth-class student at Tetley village on Friday. Reports said Jabir Husain, son of government servant Riasat Ali, was on his way to school by a motorcycle-rickshaw when it was locked in a race with another three-wheeler on the Kamoki-Tetley Road. As a result of rash driving, both the vehicles overturned and the student died on the spot. Police have arrested the drivers of both vehicles.

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