Lucknow, Dec. 25 -- Two Bihar-based men, who along with five others allegedly looted a bank in Lucknow's Chinhat area late on Saturday night, were gunned down in separate encounters in Lucknow and Ghazipur in the early hours of Tuesday, Uttar Pradesh director general of police (DGP) Prashant Kumar said.

The man killed in Lucknow was Chaargaon resident Sobind Kumar and the one shot dead in Ghazipur was identified as Sunny Dayal of Amaliya village in Munger district, the police chief said. Apart from the two men killed, three were arrested in Lucknow on Monday after an encounter, and two are still at large. P9

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