KARACHI, Dec 3: As many as 56 people were deprived of their cars, motorbikes or cellphones in various localities here on Saturday.

Police sources said 14 vehicles – seven cars and an equal number of motorcycles – were either snatched or stolen. One car was hijacked and six others were stolen while two motorbikes were snatched at gunpoint and five others stolen.

They said that 42 people were deprived of their cellularphones. Nineteen reported they were held at gunpoint by bandits who decamped with their cellphones, cash and belongings. Twenty-three other people reported that their mobile phones were stolen.

A man was killed when he offered resistance to bandits in his shop in North Karachi on Sunday.

Police said that four armed men snatched a car from Riaz near the terminal of route 2K bus in North Nazimabad and reached a half hour later in North Karachi near Qalandaria Chowk.

There the bandits raided a shop and looted cash and then moved on to another sanitary shop where Bashir Ahmed resisted the bandits, who opened fire at him and made off with the loot.

Bashir was seriously wounded and taken to a hospital, where the doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.