KARACHI: All organisations concerned washed their hands of the theft of prize bonds worth a staggering Rs30 million on Saturday.

The prize bonds went missing during transportation from Lahore to Karachi on a train.

A spokesman for the State Bank of Pakistan said the Karachi Express brought several boxes of prize bonds from the Punjab capital. After the train pulled up at Karachi’s Cantt Station, it was found that one of the boxes having bonds worth Rs30 million was missing, the spokesman said.

The matter was reported to the authorities concerned.

“The State Bank has cancelled all the missing bonds immediately as the number of each missing document is already in our record,” he said. “So there is no loss to the exchequer and the bonds in question are now worthless piece of paper. Investigations are underway with assistance of the railway authorities.”