SUKKUR, Nov 11: Six passengers were injured when highwaymen opened fire inside a Karachi-bound bus on the Indus Highway, near Mirwahi village, Jacobabad district, in the wee hours of Monday.

The highwaymen had boarded the bus to loot passengers. However, when some of them offered resistance, the dacoits opened fire injuring six.

Some of the injured were taken to the Civil Hospital Sukkur and some to a hospital in Shikarpur.

The highwaymen looted a total of four buses and deprived at least 200 passengers of their cash and other valuables.

The passengers of the four buses along with truck and bus drivers later blocked the Indus Highway, near Karampur, for seven hours in protest against the highway robberies.

A convoy of buses and trucks could be seen on both sides of the Indus Highway upto 9:00am.

The DPO, Jacobabad, along with other police officials arrived at the site and assured the protesters that security would be provided to them in future. The protesters then ended the blockade.