Sheikhupura: Bank heist accused die in police custody

SHEIKHUPURA: Two dacoits arrested yesterday while robbing a bank were killed in an alleged police encounter on Wednesday here, Geo News reported.

Police said that both the robbers were handed over to them yesterday by the bank staff and its customers who had caught them while they were looting the private bank on Aziz Bhatti Road here. They were identified as Eid Muhammad Khan and Saeed Khan, residents of tribal area.

Police in the wee hours today accompanied by both the arrested robbers were going to nab the other members of the gang, when they were fired upon in an ambush by the gang members that killed both the robbers under arrest, claimed the police.

The bodies of the deceased were shifted to the DHQ Hospital for autopsy, police said.