Mills’ machinery taken away at gunpoint

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Over 15 armed men forced their entry into a textile mills, took hostage watchmen at gunpoint and loaded the mills machinery in a truck and fled away in the jurisdiction of Dera Town Police Station.

The police said that over 15 unidentified armed robbers barged into the Tribal Textile Mills, took its seven watchmen hostage and locked them in a room at the dead of Tuesday night.They said that the robbers then brought a truck and loaded the mills’ machinery worth Rs600 million into it.

The mill’ officials said that the thieves forced their entry from the backyard after scaling the wall and opened the main gate to let their truck enter the factory.They said that the thrives also took away secret cameras installed at the office of resident director and elsewhere in the mills. The police have registered a case and started an investigation.