Bus Robberies: Dacoits escape after looting passengers

KHAIRPUR: The passengers of a bus were robbed by six dacoits at gun point, at the National Highway near Faiz Wah, on Sunday. The dacoits, disguised as travellers, fled after looting money, gold items, mobile phones and other valuables. The passengers staged a sit-in, causing disturbance to the traffic, till the police assured of the dacoits’ arrest. In a separate incident in the same district, a police official was severely injured as dacoits escaped from an encounter with the police. The ten dacoits had planned to rob a bus by blocking a road near Kumb.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 29^th, 2011.