LAHORE: A robber was shot dead while his three accomplices managed to escape after a gun battle between them and the personnel of Punjab police, said an official of the police on Tuesday.
The official said the four robbers tried to flee after snatching a motorbike from a citizen near Manga Mandi area of the provincial capital. When the police personnel challenged them to surrender, they opened fire at the personnel and in the retaliatory fire, one of them was killed while three others managed to flee from the spot, he added.