Police said that it was taking Four under custody robbers for recovery of looted valuables when their accomplices attacked the police party in Kanjah near Kot Ghulam Muhammad area of Gujrat.
All the Four robbers identified as Liaqat, Husnain, Iftikhar and a**ther were killed. The attackers fled the scene after retaliatory firing of the police.
According to police sources, the robbers were involved in murders and robberies. The bodies were shifted to hospital for postmortem and the police started efforts to arrest the assailants.