Bandits reign supreme in Hafizabad.

HAFIZABAD -- Amid tall claims by police, dacoits and thieves rampaged through the district during the past 24 hours, depriving citizens of cash, cellphone, gold ornaments and other valuable articles worth over Rs6.5 million in six different strike.

According to police sources, a trader Sajid Mehmood, son of Abdul Qayyum, was on the way to Cheema Rice Mill Jalalpur Bhattian on a bike when armed bandits snatched Rs4.7 million from him. The dacoits also intercepted a fertilizers dealer's accountant Nasrullah Khan on the way to Pindi Bhattian on a bike after getting withdrew cash of Rs0.5 million from a bank. As he reached Chiniot road, two armed bandits intercepted him and snatched the cash amount from him.

Similarly, an accountant of a rice mill Muhammad Ashraf was on the way to Khanna Bhattian in a car no LE-749 when near Hakeemwala, two armed bandits intercepted him but he accelerated in an a attempt to flee.

Upon which the criminals opened firing and snatched Rs200,000 from him.

Meanwhile, unidentified burglars broke into a shop owned by Jamal Khan, son Nek Muhammad in Model Bazaar Hafizabad and made off with shoes and cash worth thousands of rupees.

Panic gripped Jalalpur village when unidentified thieves dismantled and made off with 26 batteries worth Rs1 million from the tower of local cellular company jazz. The burglars also...