SHEIKHUPURA, April 18: Two armed dacoits took away gold ornaments worth hundreds of thousands of rupees from a jewellery shop after injuring the owner on Wednesday.

The bandits shot injured owner of the shop located on Gohray Shah road in the limits of Shahdara police when he put up resistance. The outlaws escaped with the booty. Similarly, four unidentified armed highway robbers deprived another jeweller of cash, gold ornaments weighing 900 grams and a costly cell-phone. Rashid, who ran a jewellery shop in Lahore, was carrying gold ornaments to his village, Mozang Nau, in the limits of Sharaqpur police.

ACCIDENT: At least seven participants of a marriage procession sustained injuries, two of them seriously, when the vehicle they were traveling by overturned near Tapiala Dost Muhammad. The injured were admitted to the hospital.