GUJRAT: Bandits strike seven times in Gujrat

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GUJRAT, Jan 8: Armed bandits looted a house, a trader and female schoolteachers, snatched three motorcycles and took away four buffaloes in seven strikes in and around the city during the last 36 hours.

Four dacoits took away cash and ornaments worth hundreds of thousands of rupees from the house of Masood in Peeran Da Kot locality in Gujrat.

Trader Imran was deprived of Rs15,000 in cash and a cell phone by two masked robbers near Haji Asghar Park in Lalamusa.

Teachers of Government Girls Middle School, Bhakaray Wali, were on their way to school when four bandits intercepted their rickshaw near Mehsam, Jalalpur Jattan. They snatched cash and ornaments from them at gunpoint and fled.

Three robbers snatched a motorcycle from Iftikhar near Dinga while four bandits deprived Sagheer of his motorcycle near Thathapore, Kunjah.

Three bandits intercepted Kamran near Chokorry in Lalamusa and snatched his motorcycle, some cash and a cell phone.

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