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Cloth worth Rs 0.4m looted from textile mill

RECORDER REPORT

FAISALABAD: The store of a local textile mill was looted here on Sunday by three armed dacoits.

Abdul Ghafoor, a resident of Ghulam Mohammad Abad, said that he locked his textile factory situated in Chak No. 108 JB, while a watchman was on duty. At midnight, four armed dacoits came on a Mazda loader. They entered the factory, tied the watchman and decamped after loading more than 300 bundles of cloth, worth over Rs 0.4 million.