HYDERABAD: In a re-run of the recent two dacoities at petrol bunks in Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam, a gang took away Rs. 40,000 from petrol pump workers at gunpoint at Medchal on the city outskirts well past midnight on Monday.

Around 1.40 a.m., an unidentified person drove into the Bharat Petroleum bunk premises in a Tata Sumo. Immediately, four persons brandishing revolvers walked in from the bushes behind.

They went to the two cashiers, collected money from their bags and asked the seven workers to stand at one place. "They didn't speak much and mostly communicated in signs," Medchal Inspector Syed Rafiq said. Later, they barged into manager Sakala Reddy's room taking along four workers with them.

Reddy tried to call the police. As the offenders lunged at him, he picked up an iron rod and tried to resist. But he backed off when one intruder fired at the wall.

Later, they grabbed the cash kept in the manager's room and approached the vehicle. Police suspect the vehicle belonged to the gang and the four miscreants planned to flee in it. However, their plans went awry as the workers started following them.

Initially, the dacoits tried to threaten the workers with weapons. Then they ran into the bushes and disappeared into the darkness. The Tata Sumo too sped away simultaneously.

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