Angadia workers robbed of valuables worth Rs 11 lakh

Rajkot, Mar 6 (UNI) Four armed men robbed angadias of valuables worth Rs 11 lakh near Maliaya-Miyana on Rajkot-Bhuj highway, police said.

The incident occurred at 2030 hrs last night in a Gujarat State Roadways Transport bus enroute to Batwa from Narayan Sarovar in Kutch district, police sources said.

The four men, on their was to robbed the passengers of Morbi, valuables by opening fire and creating panic among them when the bus approached Maliya Miyana in Rajkot district. They later fled from the scenne. The bus driver and the conductor were injured in the incident, sources added.

This is the fourth such incident in Saurashtra in the past four months.

On February 12 this year, two employees of separate angadias were robbed of parcels worth Rs 12 lakh in a Surat-bound private bus near Lathi. On January 17, four miscreants took away parcels worth Rs 12 lakh at gun point from the angadias in the Una-Rajkot bus near Jetpur. And in November last year, four unidentified persons stole angadia's parcels worth Rs eight lakh from the GSRTC Diu-Rajkot bus near Gondal.

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