ISLAMABAD: A man was shot and injured during a robbery whereas four persons were beaten and injured in the capital. Furthermore, cash and valuables were looted from 30 different places, police said on Wednesday.

In the first incident, two armed persons shot and injured a man identified as M. Farhan during a robbery in E-17, the police said. They were able to snatch from him his mobile phone.

In other incident, three armed persons raided the shop of Rashid Mehmood in Bhara Kahu and held up the shopkeepers and customers at gunpoint, the police said, adding that they started beating Mehmood and his two employees.

They snatched cash Rs443,000 and two mobile phones from the shop and ended up beating another customer who began shouting for help. His mobile phone was also snatched from him.

Furthermore, two armed persons intercepted and held up Zohaib Ali at Tarnol and snatched cash Rs22,000 and his vehicle from him. Four armed persons intercepted and held up Raja Hamza Zahir, a delivery boy at I-9/2 and snatched cash

Rs5,000 from him and a mobile phone from a woman in Blue Area.

Moreover, cash Rs500,000, edibles and cigarettes were stolen from a general store in Lohibher. Cash Rs85,000 and other valuables were stolen from a house in Golra. Similarly, cash Rs8,000 and three mobile phones were stolen from the shop of Ahsanur Rehman.

Police said burglars stole cash Rs20,000 from an office in G-10 Markaz and different items worth Rs20,000 from the mobile shop of Anwar Khan.

Besides this, mobiles phones were snatched from a man in Faizabad, IJP Road and Ghouri Town and from Samera Pervaiz in Shariabad.

Meanwhile, two vehicles were stolen from G-14/4 and Dhoke Koka respectively, the police said, adding that 16 motorcycles were stolen from PAF Hospital’s parking, F-10, F-11, Ghauri Town, H-9, Sohan, Faizabad, Bhara Kahu, Tarnol, I-10/4, Mehrabadi, Golra, and Blue Area.

Published in Dawn, August 25th, 2022