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GUJRANWALA, Nov 3: Five people, including two women, were killed and some 20 others injured in separate road accidents in and around the city on Sunday.
A wagon was on its way to Lahore from Gujrat when it hit a stationary tractor-trolley near Wazirabad. Three people Humayun Akhtar, Afzal and Muhammad Husain died on the spot, while 12 others sustained injuries. The injured were taken to hospital.
In another incident which took place on Main Sheikhupura Road, Shagufta Bibi of Sharaqpur was killed and over six others injured when a bus rammed into a roadside tree while saving a cyclist near Khiali.
Rashida Bibi was run over and killed by a car on the GT Road while crossing the road.
LOOTED: Dacoits looted three houses and many passers-by besides killing a man on resistance in four strikes here on Sunday.
Five dacoits forced their entry into the house of Najam Shah in Alipur Chattha and fled after looting cash and jewellery. They also shot dead Najam on resistance.
Six armed men entered the house of Haji Muhammad Zubair in Siddiq Colony and held hostage the inmates at gunpoint. They collected Rs120,000 in cash, gold ornaments and valuables and escaped.
Eight dacoits took away Rs140,000 in cash, jewellery and prize bonds worth Rs40,000 from the house of Azmatullah in People’s Colony.
Some 12 robbers looted a number of passers-by by setting up a picket on Alipur Chattha Road.
