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Noida, Sep 29 (PTI) Two suspected mobile phone snatchers on the prowl were arrested in Noida after a gunfight with the police on Wednesday morning in which one of them suffered gunshot injury, officials said.
Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (Noida) Ranvijay Singh said the gunfight broke out near a hotel in Sector 56 when the duo on a motorcycle were intercepted by officials of the Sector 58 police station.
"The accused were speeding away on their motorcycle which did not have any registration number on it, but were surrounded by police teams.
They opened gunfire on the police personnel in order to escape but one of them got hit in retaliatory firing and was held.
The other managed to run away from the spot but was arrested later,” Singh said.
The injured accused was sent to a hospital for treatment and later taken into police custody, the police said.