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KARACHI, Dec 30: Armed suspects took away Rs3.133 million from a branch of Soneri Bank in what was seen as another bank hold-up committed on Friday after a major bank robbery a day earlier in the limits of New Town police station.
Private security guards had just a day before on Thursday robbed Askari Commercial Bank of Rs16.5 million in the limits of same police station in Bahadurabad.
In the incident on Friday, police said that five armed men clad in trousers and shirts come to the bank at Chandni Chowk near the old Sabzi Mandi, deprived the security guard of his weapon, and held the bank manager and other staff at gunpoint.
They collected cash from the counter and returned the weapon to the bank guard, Juma Khan, but without bullets while making their escape.
The Bank Manager, Zubair Ahmed, lodged an FIR 367/2005 at the New Town police station.
The bandits did not go up to the strong room of the bank and only took cash from the counter, police added.
ARRESTS: Police on early Friday morning busted a gang of house robbers in the DHA.
ASP Saddar Saqib Sultan said that during patrolling in Phase I, the police spotted some suspects who ran into a vacant plot covered with wild growth.
Police cordoned off the plot and arrested the five suspects. Five TT pistols were recovered from their possession.
The gang of five comprised illegal immigrants in their late teens.
Some 16 house robberies in which the gang was involved have so far been traced, ASP said.
