FAISALABAD, July 7: Highwaymen shot dead a boy on resistance on the Faisalabad-Jaranwala Road on Saturday night.

Some masked highwaymen stopped a wagon near Gatwala and started looting passengers. A youth, Tauqeer Nasir, put up resistance and overpowered one of the bandits. But his accomplices shot him dead and fled with the booty.