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Kolkata: Gold loan firm looted at gun point, woman shot

| | Apr 08, 2017, at 09:30 pm
Kolkata, Apr 8 (IBNS): Dacoits armed with guns robbed a gold loan company at Rahara Station Road area under khardah Police Station limits in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, few kilometres away from Kolkata, on Saturday broad daylight and shot a woman during escape, reports said.

According to reports, at least three armed miscreants stormed a branch of IIFL Gold Loan company in the morning and robbed gold and cash at gun point.

While escaping the area after operation, dacoits opened fire and a nearly 34-year-old lady, Sharbari Ghosh, was shot.

The woman was rushed to a nearby hospital where she is being treated in a serious condition, according to reports.

Police, however, have started probe into the matter while none has been arrested so far in connection with the case.

"We are examining CCTV footage and quizzing eye-witnesses to identify the miscreants," a senior official of Barrackpore Police Commissionerate told IBNS.

(Reporting by Deepayan Sinha)

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