KARACHI, Jan 23: A gold jewellery shop in Sarafa Bazaar within the remit of the Kharadar police station was robbed in the early hours of Sunday, police said.

The shopkeeper learnt about the break-in on Monday morning when he came to open the shop for routine business. The robbers had cut the locks to enter the shop, Iqbal Jewellers, the police added.

They said that the shop owner had told the police that they had suffered a loss of about Rs2 million as the jewellery placed in the showcases was taken away by the robbers.

However, the robbers did not break the safe locker which contained more expensive jewellery, the police quoted the shopkeeper as saying.

An FIR pertaining to the incident was yet to be registered at the Kharadar police station.

In another but a related development, shopkeepers at the Liaquatabad Sarafa Bazaar staged a demonstration on the main Shahrah-i-Pakistan in protest against Sunday’s incident in which bandits had robbed a jewellery shop in the market.

Three people — two bystanders and a robber — were also wounded in the exchange of fire that took place between the bandits and police.

The protesters blocked the main road and chanted slogans.

They claimed that the incidence of robberies and snatchings in their market had increased which had adversely affected their business.

They condemned the police for their failure to crime in the area.