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Rai resisted the loot after which one of the criminals opened fire which hit him. The victims told police that two of the criminals had not covered their faces,” Prakash said.He said the injured person was taken to a private hospital at Patna and raids were on to nab the criminals. A minor scuffle also took place between Kishore and the criminals in which he also fell down and received injury on middle finger of his right hand,” the SHO said adding no empty cartridge was recovered from spot.He said that after looting the money, the four criminals immediately fled from the spot.“The employees were going to deposit the money into a branch of State Bank of India (SBI) which takes hardly a minute to reach on bike from the gas agency,” SHO Prakash said.He said that the road on which the incident took place is a branch road of Hajipur-Lalganj main road on which the bank is located.“We are trying to gather CCTV camera footage of the incident to get clue of the criminals. Patna: At least four unidentified armed criminals looted Rs 9.4 lakh after shooting a private gas agency employee at Adalbari under Town police station area of Hajipur in Vaishali district at around 10am on Monday.Town police station SHO Om Prakash said that the injured employee has been identified as Baliram Rai (45) who received one gunshot injury on his right waist.Prakash said that the injured an employee of one Kunal gas agency which supplies domestic cooking cylinders of HP.“Rai along with another employee Braj Kishore (26) left the agency office on a bike and had hardly travelled 50 meters from their office when the loot took place,” he said.The SHO said that four criminals on two separate bikes were waiting for the staffs on the road ahead of the agency office and intercepted the employees after which they looted the bag containing the money.“As soon as the employees reached the criminal, they blocked the road and kicked the bike on which the employees were travelling due to which they fell down..