FAISALABAD, May 16: Unidentified outlaws made off with cash, ornaments, valuables worth thousands of rupees and also took away three cars in eight strikes in and around the city during the last 24 hours.

Four unidentified armed bandits looted 42 tolas of gold, Rs30,000 in cash and other valuables from the house of Ishtiaq Ahmed. The intruders made hostage female members before looting the house.

A gang of dacoits looted Rs300,000 in cash, electric appliances, travellers cheques of thousands of rupees and other articles by taking hostage the family members of trader Muhammad Ilyas in Batala Colony.

Two unidentified bandits entered a clinic on the Faisalabad-Sargodha Road, snatched thousands of rupees from patients and the doctor at gunpoint and escaped.

Three masked bandits fled after taking away thousands of rupees from Muhammad Saeed, owner of a medical store, in a broad daylight dacoity in Peoples Colony.

Armed bandits looted thousands of rupees in cash and other valuables during a dacoity in the house of Muhammad Naseer at Chak 9-JB in the limits of Nishatabad police station.

Highwaymen snatched a car from Muhammad Ishaq on the Faisalabad-Samundri Road at gunpoint.

Unknown thieves took away two cars from Katchery Bazaar and Gulberg in separate incidents.

KILLS FATHER: A youth murdered his father over a minor issue at Chak 23-JB here on Thursday.

Khushhal Khan had time and again barred his son Muhammad Sharif from joining the bad company, but he refused to submit. On Thursday, his father again pulled him up, but he fell into a rage and shot dead his father.

Police have registered a case against the absconding youth.

COMMITS SUICIDE: A boy committed suicide by firing shot on his temple over a minor issue in Ghulam Muhammadabad here on Thursday. Muhammad Saeed was reprimanded by his father for quarrelling with his other family members.