TAXILA: A woman was allegedly gang-raped by four people on Monday.

Sources in police said the victim along with three others was on her way back to Rawalpindi when the suspects equipped with weapons intercepted them near Heavy Mechanical Complex on Hattar Road.

She alleged that she was taken by the suspects to a deserted place where they raped her one by one and also snatched cash amounting to Rs400,000 from one of her companions identified as Tahir.

She also gave the names of two of the suspects.

Moreover, five armed men looted a house in Gulshan Anwar area in the jurisdiction of Wah Saddar police station.

Sadaf Abbas reported to police that five armed men broke into her house and held her family hostage. The family was locked in a room and the suspects escaped with items and cash worth Rs1 million.

In the same police station’s jurisdiction, five armed suspects entered into the house of Syed Ali Kashif and took cash and valuables worth Rs200,000 at gunpoint.

Separately, Arif Mehmood reported to the same police that her teenage daughter was abducted by three people from G.T. Road. He said they took her in a Suzuki van.

Published in Dawn, November 23rd, 2021