KARACHI, Jan 10: At least 25 vehicles—ten cars and fifteen motorcycles were either hijacked or stolen from different parts of the city on Thursday, police said.

The cars were either hijacked or stolen from different districts of the city including South, Central and East, police added.

ROBBERIES: Several passengers of a minibus were looted of cash and valuables by bandits in Aziz Bhatti police station limits on Thursday.

The reports said four men boarded in a minibus near Hasan Square after it reached Gulshane Iqbal. They drew up their guns and asked the passengers to flush out whatever cash they had and threatened to kill them if they called any one for help.

The bandits fled the scene after collecting the cash with them.

The reports said that it was the second instance of robbery of minibus passengers.

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