Mysuru, July 3 -- Just hours after a truck carrying pharmaceutical consignments was fired upon in an attempted robbery on the Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway in Mandya early yesterday morning, another gang struck on the Mysuru-Ooty Highway, intercepting a car near Nanjangud and fleeing with cash worth several lakhs of rupees.
In the first incident, which occurred around 4.45 am near a hotel on the Mysuru-Bengaluru Highway, unidentified miscreants opened fire at a commercial truck transporting pharmaceutical goods in an attempt to loot the vehicle.
Later in the evening, five armed men targeted a Maruti Suzuki Ciaz carrying two Kerala natives on the Mysuru-Ooty Highway. The victims, identified as Latheef (55) and Anil (24) of Thalassery in Kerala,...