KARACHI, Aug 3: A passenger coach was looted by three armed men who boarded it near the Askari Park on University Road on Thursday night.

According to a passenger who was traveling the Shiraz coach, the three suspects boarded the coach at around 9pm and started looting the passenger at gunpoint.

They collected the cash, deprived the passengers of the cellphones and got off before the Hasan Square.

When the passengers protested with the conductor of the coach, he said that these suspects often boarded the coach at the Askari Park and deprived passengers of their valuables. When passengers told him to report the incident to the police, he rejected the idea saying that police too were involved in such acts, the passenger narrated.

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