BENGALURU: Terror reigned along the road to Kempegowda International Airport for 90 minutes in the early hours of Thursday as six machetewielding gangsters on two bikes attacked motorists, vendors and pedestrians and made away with their two-wheelers, cash and cellphones on a 4km stretch of the highway.Police managed to arrest one of them a few hours later, shooting him in the leg after he swung a machete at them. A manhunt is on for the rest.The gangsters’ first victim was a call centre employee waiting for an office cab near Chikkajala Main Road, near Yelahanka, around 4am. The two bikes stopped near her. One of the gangsters snatched her mobile phone and they sped away.Fifteen minutes later, the gangsters knocked on a parked cab’s doors near Chikkajala fort. The wary cabbie did not open the door, resisting even when one of them began swinging a machete.Bike-borne robber attacks cops with machete, shot atHearing the cabbie’s screams for help, two men on a motorcycle stopped and rushed to his help. The robbers blocked the motorcycle, attacked the two men on it, snatched their mobile phones and rode away. Ashok Reddy, the bike owner, sustained severe injuries from the machete blows.The robbers next stopped near ITC factory around 4.40am and targeted another cab. They snatched Rs 2,000 from the driver. Around 5am, they attacked a tea shop owner near Bachahalli gate and sped away with his gearless scooter parked outside the shop. The gangsters slashed the shop owner, Nagaraj, with machetes before speeding away.Their next victim was a vegetable vendor walking towards the bus stop near Trumpet Interchange around 5.15am. The gang snatched Rs 12,000 from him. They appeared to call it a day around 5.30am after snatching Rs 2,000 from the driver of an empty goods vehicle.By this time, an alert had been flashed across eight police control rooms in the city. Special teams were formed to trace the criminals. A naka bandi was implemented at different places of Chikkajala and near KIA. Around 8am, a police team spotted a motorist riding in a suspicious manner near Bharatinagar junction. The rider stopped on seeing the cops, took a U-turn and sped away. “Seeing him bolting, our men followed him and chased him for nearly a kilometre and blocked him. They tried to detain him but the biker pulled a machete and attacked the cops,” a police officer said. “We shot one round in the air, but he continued to attack us, we shot him in the left foot.”The injured robber, Mohammed Ashraf Khan, a resident of RT Nagar, was shifted to Victoria hospital, police said.Additional commissioner of police (East) Seemanth Kumar Singh confirmed that Ashraf Khan was one of the bike-borne gangsters. Search is on for others.