KOHAT, Oct 22: Thieves took away carpets and a ceiling fan from a mosque in Lachi tehsil here on late Friday night. Dawn

The police said unknown thieves entered a mosque in Mohallah Shalak Khel and took with them two carpets and a fan. A local resident, Tayyab Mahmood, told when the people came to the mosque early in the morning to offer prayers they found carpets and a fan missing.

The thieves also burgled a mobile phone shop. The people of the area asked the SHO of Lachi police to check the increasing incidents of theft and arrest the culprits.

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