SIALKOT, Nov 11: Dacoits shot dead the guard of a bus and injured the uncle of a union council Nazim on resistance in the district on Sunday night.

Three dacoits intercepted a Rawalpindi-bound bus (LSK-7980) near Chamhoor village on Sialkot-Phalora Road. They held up the passengers and started snatching cash and other valuables. The dacoits opened fire when guard Ameer Ali resisted, killing him on the spot.

Later, they collected gold ornaments, cash and other valuables, worth Rs100,000, and fled away while firing in the air.

Phalora police are investigating.

Another three dacoits forced their entry into the house of Muhammad Yousaf, the uncle of Uggoki Union Council Nazim Mian Safdar, in Loharan Mohallah. They shot at and injured Yousaf when he offered resistance, and fled away.

The gang earlier looted gold ornaments, cash and other valuables, worth Rs150,000, from the house of trader Muhammad Bashir in the same locality.

Two dacoits took away a taxi car (No GAC 5658) from its driver Shafiqur Rehman in Mallokey village (Qila Kalarwala) of Pasrur tehsil.

Police have registered separate cases, with no arrest.

LANDMINE BLAST: A villager was seriously injured in a landmine blast in Naloya village of Sialkot working boundary’s Zafarwal-Shakargarh-Narowal sector on Monday.

Official sources said Muhammad Khalid went to the fields to answer the call of nature in the morning when he hit a landmine planted there. The landmine went off, injuring him seriously.

His condition was stated to be critical at the Sialkot CMH.