MULTAN, Dec 3: Cash and valuables worth Rs2.8 million were robbed and two people, including a woman, were injured in two separate incidents in different parts of the city on Monday.

Muhammad Shafiq, a cloth merchant from Faisalabad, collected Rs2.6 million from different cloth dealers in timber market. He was going to the bus stand with a local shopkeeper, Adnan, when two unidentified motorcyclists opened fire on them leaving Adnan injured. They managed to escape after snatching the cash from Shafiq.

Adnan was admitted to the Nisthar Hospital where his condition was stated to be critical.

In the other incident, six dacoits barged into the house of a district council member, Sherish Khan, in Shah Rukne Alam Colony. They held the family at gunpoint and tortured Sherish when she put up resistance.

The dacoits managed to escape with gold and cash worth Rs200,000.

MURDERED: A man was shot dead and two others injured in different parts of the city on Monday.

Ashraf and his brother Muhammad Husain allegedly shot dead one Khurshid when he refused to pay back former’s loan in Makhdoom Rashid.

The Makhdoom Rashid police have registered a case.

According to Muhammad Ikram, Khan Shamsher and his accomplices Liaquat Ali, Sherdin and Ali had illegally occupied his grandfather’s land in Faridpur near Makhdoom Rashid.

On Monday, when his grandfather Shan Muhammad along with one Musharraf visited his land, Shamsher and his accomplices attacked on them with iron bars leaving them seriously injured. They were admitted to the Nishtar Hospital.

HELD: Local police on Monday claimed to have arrested three gangs of dacoits with two-wheelers, rickshaws and illicit weapons worth Rs500,000.—Nouman

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