July 04, 2008	Friday	Jamadi-us-Sani 29, 1429

KARACHI, July 3: Over a dozen armed men took away valuables from an oil terminal located in the oil installation area of Keamari in the small hours of Thursday morning.

A spokesman for the Terminals Association of Pakistan (TAP) said that a group of armed men numbering between 12 and 14 barged into the premises of the Pakistan Molasses Company, cut expensive heavy electric cables, ransacked locked rooms and took away different valuables.

A Shehzore truck was used in the armed hold-up, which has become a regular feature of these robberies, the spokesman said.

The bandits also badly beat up two watchmen employed at the terminal and took away their repeater guns while escaping.

The spokesman said armed break-ins had become very common in the area while the authorities seemed to be looking the other way.

Man kills wife

A 28-year-old woman was killed in her rented house by her husband and step-son in the Al-Falah area, police said.

They said victim Zainub Bibi was the second wife of Shiraz Khan, who, along with his son Aslam, stabbed the woman to death and fled.

The police said that a blood-stained cricket bat was also found beside the body. They said the victim was also hit by the bat.

The police registered a case against the two suspects on the complaint of house owner Shahdad Khan.

Meanwhile, two bandits on a motorcycle deprived a man of Rs100,000 at gunpoint in Gulshan-i-Jamal.

Ghulam Murtaza reported to the Sharea Faisal police that he withdrew money from a bank in the vicinity and the dacoits looted him when he reached near his house.