GAUSHALA: As many as 50 cylinders of cooking gas were looted from a store of a businessman along the Samsi-Raghunathpur road section in Mahottari district on Monday evening.

A group of youth claiming themselves agitators looted the gas cylinders, shared the victim businessman Ramdev Yadav of Samsi VDC-7.

Yadav claimed that the residents of Raghunathpur looted the gas cylinders. He, however, said that all the looters were unknown to him.

Likewise, the Armed Police Force also confirmed that the gas cylinders carrying from Lalbandi of Sarlahi district in a tractor (Ja 1 Ta 4711) were looted during the ongoing indefinite general shutdown in the Madhes.