January 08, 2008	Tuesday	Zilhaj 28, 1428

KARACHI, Jan 7: Two children were killed and three minor brothers were injured on Monday in a wall collapse in Gulshan-i-Ghazi.

Moachco police said the children were playing on an open plot when a boundary wall collapsed on them.

The victims were taken to the Civil Hospital, where the dead were identified as Shahzad, 8, son of Badshah Jan , and Shazia, 8, daughter of Nadir Ali.

Badshah Jan, a clerk at a minibus terminal, told Dawn that no one could be blamed for the deaths as it was an accident. “It was the decree of fate and it is my firm belief that no one could have averted it,” he said.

The father of victim Shazia is a minibus driver, he said. He said the injured brothers were Nabeel Khan, 7, Zakir, 5, and Ashfaq.

Rs1.3 million looted

Three bandits looted on Monday Rs1.3 million from the cashier of a tent-manufacturing company in Site.

Aurangzeb, driver of the H. Nizam Din and Sons, reported to the police that he was returning to the factory with cashier Saeedul Haq after withdrawing the cash from a bank on I. I. Chundrigarh Road when the bandits intercepted them.

He said the bandits were in a Cultus (ANH-459). One of them was armed with a hammer and the other with a Kalashnikov. They held the victims hostage as they pulled over at a traffic light at the Shershah Chowk.

Site police registered a case against unknown robbers on the complaint of the company driver and mounted a search for them.

They said the bandits must have been following the victims from the bank. They said efforts were being made to find the owner of the car used by the bandits.

Besides, a gang of three bandits robbed Rs400,000 from an Allied Bank branch in Jauharabad.