RAWALPINDI, Dec 14: A flour mill owner was robbed of Rs155,000 by armed men while a shopkeeper was deprived of Rs200,000, police and the victims said on Friday.

Habibur Rehman, the owner of a flour mills, was coming out of a bank branch in the Civil Lines after withdrawing the Rs155,000 when two motorbike riders snatched the cash at gunpoint.

Haji Mohammad Nawaz, who owns a grocery store in n the limits of Naseerabad police, said when he came to his shop on Friday he found its locks broken and Rs200,000 kept inside stolen. As many as eight other shops were also ransacked by bandits in the area.

The police registered a case on the complaint of Haji Nawaz while the other victims were told to record their statements and the estimated loss.