LAKKI MARWAT: Petrol pump looted

Published November 16, 2002

LAKKI MARWAT, Nov 15: A petrol pump was looted by three unidentified armed men on the main highway here the other day. The robbers also decamped with a double barrel gun.

According to reports, the armed men, who had put on masks, entered the office of the Al-Saif PSO filling station, situated on the main Bannu-Mianwali highway, some two kilometres from the city, at the time of Taraveeh, snatched the keys of the drawers from the clerks, Sardar and Nazir, collected Rs30,000 and took away the watchman’s double barrel gun.

The filling station belongs to a relative of district Nazim Humayun Saifullah Khan.

The police have lodged an FIR against the three unknown robbers.—Correspondent

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