Dacoits have a field day in Gujranwala

Published November 26, 2001

GUJRANWALA, Nov 25: Dacoits and robbers looted the house of an army officer, a food company store, a commuter wagon and drove away with a rice-laden truck in four strikes on Sunday.

According reports reaching here, a dozen outlaws forced their entry into the house Maj Munawar Ali (retired) in Dera Syadian Said Nager, Alipur Chattha, by scaling the boundary wall.

They held hostage the inmates at gunpoint and collected Rs 100,000 in cash, gold jewellery weighing 42 tolas and licensed arms.

They also injured Muhammad Bashir and Muhammad Ali, sons of the ex-major.

Two dacoits entered the store of a food products company in Bukhari Colony and took away Rs 170,000 in cash and a licensed 7mm gun.

Four highwaymen looted passengers of a Ghakkhar-bound commuter wagon on Nat Kalan road early Sunday morning. They thrashed those who put up resistance.

Another four-man gang drove away with a rice-laden truck (RID-6343) near Kot Shera on Sheikhupura road.

SURRENDER: A murderer appeared before a local court on Saturday, eleven years after his conviction.

Muhammad Mushtaq and his accomplices killed Muhammad Khalid over a farm land dispute in Qila Dedar Singh in 1987. He escaped from court when the district sessions judge announced the death sentence in 1991.

The court sent him to the Central Jail.

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