Rs3.5m cash, 34-tola gold looted from trader's house.

RAHIM YAR KHAN -- A gang of six dacoits took away Rs3.5 million cash and 34 tolas of gold from the house of a grain market trader here in Trust Colony in the wee hours of Friday.

According to police, six unidentified dacoits reached outside the house of Muhammad Asghar, the owner of a commission shop, near Aysha Masjid in Trust Colony at 4am.

The dacoits first cut the cables of the CCTV cameras and entered the house through the roof of an adjoining under-construction building.

They took the trader and his family hostage at gunpoint, collected the cash kept in two rooms, along 34 tola gold and fled away.

According to the trader, the police despite being immediately informed of the incident, reached his house after an hour.

Asghar told reporters that he suffered a total loss of more than Rs10 million in the dacoity.

It was a third incident of dacoity during the last few days in the city days.

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