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Dacoit killed by villagers

RECORDER REPORT

FAISALABAD: One unidentified dacoit was killed while four of his accomplice managed to flee during an encounter with villagers near Chak No.59 G.B. Illaqa Jaranwala on Sunday.

According to reports received here, five armed men entered the house of one Muhammad Asghar Pathan in a nearby village of Jaranwala and started removing his animal and goats at gun-point.

He raised an alarm on which the villagers armed with weapons reached for his rescue. The dacoits tried to escape by resorting to fire but the villagers too exchanged firing causing spontaneous death of a dacoit while four others managed to flee from the scene.