Four armed dacoits killed by the firing.

SIALKOT -- As many as four armed dacoits were killed by the firing of their two fleeing companions during an encounter with Sialkot police near Muzaffarpur Phaatak locality on Uggoki-Sialkot Road here early in the dense foggy morning on Monday. According to the local senior police officials, as many as six unknown dacoits were looting the local people by setting up a "Daaku Naaka" there, when a police reached there. On seeing police, accused opened fire. A silence was there when police retaliated. Officials said that four dacoits were killed by the bullets fired by their two fleeing accused companions. Police shifted dead bodies to Govt.

Allama Iqbal Memorial Teaching Hospital Sialkot for autopsy. Police officials said that the slain accused dacoits were still to be identified. It was worth mentioning that these killings of four dacoits by bullets fired their two accused companions during an encounter with...