Dacoits made off with lead weighing 1.5 tonne after raiding a lead manufacturing company and attacking one of its workers with a knife at Nandigama, 50 km from here, in the early hours of Thursday.
A gang of seven men drove in a mini truck an hour after Wednesday midnight to the factory located in Nandigama near Kothur of Mahbubnagar district, which comes under Cyberabad commissionerate. While three persons waited with the vehicle at the gate, four jumped over the gate and sneaked inside.
“There were seven workers inside the factory. The dacoits detained them in a room and inflicted a knife injury on one of them for resisting,” the police said. The gang put the lead in a box and shifted it onto the truck and drove away. “They covered the truck’s number plate with a dark cloth apparently not to get tracked,” the police said. Investigators suspect the offenders recced the area by moving on two-wheelers earlier. Around 5.30 a.m., one of the detained workers managed to come out and call his employer.
