HYDERABAD, July 20: Bandits looted Rs4.5 million in different areas on Friday Some six armed men entered the Soneri Bank branch in Latifabad unit-7 in the afternoon and decamped with around Rs3 million. According to the bank manager, they had disarmed the security guards and left the bank in about seven to eight minutes and before leaving. Before leaving they took away the CCTV footage.

Three gunmen struck at a cellphone franchise owned by Asif Kalhoro on Fatima Jinnah road and robbed Rs650,000 and nine cellphones.

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