Andhra Pradesh - Anantapur   

8 dacoits caught by farmers

ANANTAPUR: But for their bravery, six farmers from Mallenipalli village of Guntakal rural mandal would have been robbed of their year-long toil. Their timely reaction not only helped save cash from the sale of their farm produce but also helped in nabbing an eight-member inter-State dacoit gang.

According to the police and the information reaching here, six farmers of the village went to Hubli in Karnataka to sell their red chilli crop. They were returning on Saturday evening by Hubli-Guntakal-Guntur passenger when a dacoit gang attacked them with hunting sickles and a dummy revolver near Hospet in the wee hours of Sunday.

The farmers with huge cash, in lakhs of rupees, were sleeping when the dacoits tried to loot the cash. However, one of the farmer caught a dacoit and raised an alarm following which the other farmers and passengers overpowered the dacoits .

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