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Armed gang loots bunk

Staff Reporter

Shoots manager, cashier of the BP outlet near Medchal

The attackers take away Rs. 90,000
The same bunk was looted at the end of 2006

HYDERABAD: Two days after terror suspects escaped by firing at policemen in the State capital, armed robbers looted a petrol bunk on the outskirts near Medchal after firing two workers with ‘tapanchas’ in the wee hours of Friday.

While Chinni, 25, manager of the Bharat Petroleum company outlet sustained bullet wound on shoulder, cashier Ravinder Reddy, 23, was critically injured as the bullet hit his chest. Both were admitted to a corporate hospital in Secunderabad.

The four-member gang took away Rs. 90,000 after beating two workers of the bunk located on the Nizamabad-Hyderabad highway at Yellampet village and walked away finishing the robbery in five minutes flat. Police believe their associates waited in a vehicle in the darkness few yards away and the entire gang later sped away in it.

Clad in pullovers, trousers and wearing sports shoes, the robbers walked inside the bunk spread over nearly two acres around 3 a.m. Twenty minutes earlier, the Medchal police station night duty officer Anjaiah left the place after stopping by for checking. The robbers lunged at worker Ismail and threatened to kill him if he raised an alarm showing tapanchas. While two robbers beat up him, others snatched his cash bag containing Rs. 60,000.

Later, they briskly walked up to the bunk’s two-room office building. “The robbers barged into the front room and began showering blows on my colleague Jangaiah. I woke up manager Chinni sleeping in the adjacent room,” another

worker Satish recalled. Mistaking the robbers for lorry drivers creating trouble, the manager rushed out shouting only to be fired by one of them. Hit on the shoulder, he ran back into the room. Meanwhile, Reddy woke up to the gunshot sound and came out.

Deadly assault

The robbers did not spare him too and pumped bullet into his chest from close range. As Reddy collapsed, they collected Rs. 30,000 from Jangaiah and disappeared in the darkness. Cyberabad Police Commissioner S. Prabhakar Reddy visited the spot.

Armed robbers looted the same bunk towards the end of 2006 by firing into the air. But that case was not solved yet.

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