BAHAWALPUR: A team of the Pervaizwala check post of the Punjab Highway Patrol (PHP) claimed to have arrested a robbery suspect while his three accomplices managed to flee after an encounter on the Lodhran-Khanewal highway.

Police signalled a car to stop at the check-post but the car driver attempted to flee.

When police chased the car, the riders allegedly opened fire on them. An encounter started which left one of the occupants of the car injured while his three accomplices managed to flee in the darkness.

Police recovered from the car thetractor-trolley driver, Muhammad Ramzan, and helper, Zahid, who worked for a businessman, Muhammad Ismail.

According to police, both Ramzan and Zahid were transporting 550 maund cotton, worth Rs4m, to Chichawatni when the robbers intercepted their tractor-trolley and abducted them at gunpoint.

The Jahania police impounded the tractor-trolley from the abandoned area of Lakhi Tibbi and registered a case against the fieeing robbers.

BODY FOUND: The Dunyapur police claimed to have found the body of a man belonging to Chak 68/12-I of tehsil Chichawatni from the cabin of an oil tanker, which was travelling on Qutabpur-Noorpurroad.

According to Rescue 1122 Lodhran Coordinator Muhammad Safdar, Dunyapur police had installed a picket on QutabpurDunyarpur road at night. When the SHO signaled an oil tanker to stop, its driver stopped the vehicle and fled.

Police found the tortured body of a man, later identified as Raees Khan (38), in the tanker. They sent the body to the Dunyapur Tehsil Headquarters Hospital and registered a murder case against the driver.

In a separate incident, one Saddam Hussain (26), an assistant of a truck driver, was seriously injured when the truck overturned near Ahmedpur East.