Man robbed of Rs2.4m in SBP branch

Published March 19, 2003

KARACHI, March 18: Bandits robbed a man of Rs2.4 million at gunpoint on the premises of State Bank’s prize bond branch on Tuesday morning.

Rafiq, 67, told police that he had gone to the SBP prize bond branch with prize bonds worth Rs700,000 and Rs1.7 million in cash.

After purchasing some prize bonds, he was hiding the cash inside his clothes in the building’s toilet when two youth held him at gunpoint and one of them put a cloth on his face, following which Rafiq collapsed.

He was shifted to the Civil Hospital by the SBP staff.

Police said the victim was a retired bank employee.

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