GUJRANWALA, Feb 10: Aimanabad SHO Khalid Mahmood Afzal was suspended from service on Thursday for reaching several hours late at the encounter site on Wednesday.

The SHO was also issued a show-cause notice. Three bandits, as many policemen and a bank manager had been killed in the shootout after a bank dacoity.

Talking to Dawn, Kamoki circle DSP Syed Wallayat Hussain said that bodies of the three dacoits were still lying unclaimed at the police station as nobody turned up to receive them.

He said the deceased dacoits, their two accomplices and half a dozen unidentified accomplices were booked for killing three constables under Anti-Terrorism Act.

The DSP revealed that the deceased dacoits belonged to Bara Bhai village, Shakergarh district. Involved in about two dozen cases of murder, dacoity and robbery in various districts, he said they were already declared POs by courts.

He said that police parties were raiding at the hideouts of their accomplices in Shakergarh and other places in the Narowal district to arrest them.