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Dacoits loot truck with cigarettes worth Rs 4 crore
Dacoits waylaid and looted a truck laden with cigarettes worth Rs 4 crore at Malkapuram under Choutuppal mandal in Yadadri-Bhongir district in the early hours of Sunday. The broad daylight dacoity took the police by surprise.
Choutuppal (Yadadri district): Dacoits waylaid and looted a truck laden with cigarettes worth Rs 4 crore at Malkapuram under Choutuppal mandal in Yadadri-Bhongir district in the early hours of Sunday. The broad daylight dacoity took the police by surprise.
The police said the container was on its way to Tirupati in Andhra Pradesh from Musheerabad in Hyderabad with a load of cigarettes. Truck driver Akilesh Yadav told the police that as many as 20 persons, who overtook his container by a sports utility vehicle.
The miscreants stopped the truck and forced their entry into it. When the cigarette-laden truck reached Malkapuram, the offenders thrashed the driver and took him to a hilly terrain on outskirts of Choutuppal where he was left. The dacoits shifted the cigarettes into another vehicle and made off with the booty. The driver managed to reach the Choutuppal police station and reported the matter. Clues team was pressed into service to collect evidence from the spot.
