GUJRANWALA, April 29: The dacoits looted two industrialists and also took away a car in two strikes in the city on Friday. Reports said that an industrialist Farooq Ahmad was returning home after drawing Rs500,000 from a bank branch, when he was intercepted by two men on a motorcycle in Satellite Town market. The robbers snatched cash from Farooq at gun point and escaped.

Another industrialist, Atif Mehmood, was deprived of his car by four outlaws when he was on his way to Gujranwala from Lahore. Police, on being informed, followed the accused and opened fire on them but they escaped after returning the fire.

People protest: A number of subscribers of Kamoki protested on Friday against the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited for severing their phone connections owing to non-payment of bills and demanded that they should be issued bills before due date.

Some of the subscribers said the PTCL used to deliver bills through post offices and there were only eight postmen in Kamoki who had failed to deliver bills to some 10,000 subscribers in time.

They demanded that the bills should be dispatched to them one week before the due date. They alleged that they received bills after due date, and the PTCL authorities severed their connections due to non-payment of the same.

They demanded that their connections should be restored immediately as they were facing a great deal of inconvenience.