KARACHI, May 15: In two robberies, one in a bank and the other in a house, cash and valuables worth more than Rs10 million were taken away on Monday. Staff of a private bank in Kharadar informed police that the doors of their branch were locked and the security guard was missing when they arrived at their workplace in the morning.
According to the police, when one of its doors was opened by the staff, they noticed that papers and other things were littered all around. They also found the door of strong room open and some of the lockers inside broken.
The staff told police that the bank’s security guard, Said Wali, an employee of a private security company, was missing. He was deputed at the branch some three months back. Police were told that Rs2.8 million cash and the jewellery and ornaments kept in eight lockers were also missing. A case against the security guard was registered.
In another incident, Naheed Mehr of an NGO reported to the New Town police that two robbers broke into her house in Bahadurabad and held her, along with her daughters, hostage. They collected Rs2.5 million cash and prize bonds worth Rs2.5 million, saving certificates worth Rs1 million and 2.5kgs of gold at gunpoint and fled.
KILLED: A young man was killed in Kharadar during an abortive hold-up on Monday.
Police said that two armed men came to a shop in Juna Market and attacked Farhan Khan, an employee, fearing that he was about to taking out some weapon. They shot him in the head and fled, police said.
DACOITY: Robbers broke into a CNG installation shop and took away 10 cylinders, worth Rs175,000, in the early hours of Sunday in Gulistan-i-Jauhar. Owner of the shop, Sajjad Khan, lodged an FIR 242/06 at the Sharea Faisal police station and nominated the security in-charge of the Erum Shopping Mall Union and others.
