Bank looted

Published August 7, 2008

DERA GHAZI KHAN, Aug 6: Three armed men looted Rs500,000 from a bank branch in the vicinity of Kot Chuta police station on Wednesday. The robbers entered the National Bank branch, held hostage the staff at gunpoint and made off with cash.

MURDER: Husband killed his wife and her alleged lover in the limits of Gooth Mazari police station here on Wednesday.

Hazoor Bakhsh of Chak Hatyar killed his wife, Shabeeran, and her lover, Barkat, and threw their bodies in river Indus.

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