1.5kg stolen gold recovered, 2 held

Published November 21, 2002

KOHAT, Nov 20: The police in an operation in the Ustarzai village on Tuesday recovered about 1.5kg of the 26kg gold taken away from a jewellry shop in Rawalpindi and arrested two accused.

The Rawalpindi airport police had contacted the Kohat police for the arrest of three people suspected of master- minding a robbery at a jewellry shop in Rawalpindi on Nov 7.

On Tuesday, they raided a house in Ustarzai village near the tribal area of Orakzai Agency and arrested Abul Hassan and Anwar Hussain and recovered 1,500 grams of gold from their possession.

During investigations, it was revealed that the gang, known as ‘Group Seven’, was involved in the robbery in which gold and cash worth Rs20 million had been stolen and that three of its members were hiding in Kohat.

The gangsters had distributed the booty among themselves before breaking up, an officer of the Ustarzai police station disclosed.

#TWO INJURED:#/ Two people, including an elderly woman, were injured when some assailants attacked the house of a councillor with hand grenades in Lachi.

Mumtaz Khan, told the police that eight people attacked his house and lobbed hand grenades at the house of his relative seriously injuring Mamsoos Khan and his mother Zama Jan.

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