LAKKI MARWAT, Nov 13: A driver foiled an attempt to snatch his vehicle by retaliating against the armed bandits on Wednesday night on a branch road of the Indus Highway.

Salim Marjan was driving a van (DND 422), loaded with vegetable, from the Serai Naurang fruit and vegetable market to Punjab via  Landiwa-EsaKhel branch road when three men signalled him near Kara Nawar Khel graveyard, in the vicinity of the Dadiwala police station and ordered him to handover the vehicle.

The driver, instead, fired at the bandits, injuring one of them. The bandits fled while spraying bullets, but the driver remained unhurt.  

The bandits left their weapons (AK-47 assault rifles) on the scene.

The driver lodged an FIR against three unidentified bandits.

It is suspected that the bandits went to Miran Shah, North Wazirastan.