PATNA, Jan. 10 -- Five unidentified motorbike-borne robbers attacked a gold trader and looted Rs.50 lakh in cash in Jamui district on Saturday, police said.

The incident occurred on the Jamui-Malaypur main road under the limits of Malaypur police station, they said.

The victim has been identified as Vikram Kumar Soni alias Vicky.

According to the FIR, Soni was on his way to Jamui railway station to catch a train to Kolkata when five miscreants intercepted him on the Jamui-Malaypur state highway and demanded the bag containing cash. When he resisted, the assailants struck him with a pistol butt near the Aanjan river, barely 100 metres from the Malaypur police station, and fled with the cash bag.

Locals rescued the injured trader in a c...