PESHAWAR: In a major gold heist in the provincial capital, burglars stole about 25 kilogrammes of gold worth around Rs150 million from a jeweller’s shop in the limits of the west cantonment police station.

A police official told Dawn the gold shop was located on the Arbab Road in the heart of the Peshawar Cantonment. He said according to the shop owner Ziauddin, resident of Gulberg, unknown robbers had taken away about 25 kilogrammes of gold from his shop between Saturday and Monday.

The official quoted the owner as saying when he opened the shop on Monday he found about 25 kilogrammes of gold missing from it.

Police and local traders said the thieves managed to enter the shop through a three-storey building using a door opening into a nearby alley.

They said thieves also used the same route to escape with the looted gold. They said thieves disabled the CCTV cameras installed in the shop by cutting the shop’s uninterrupted power supply cables.

Police said they were questioning the three guards of the bazaar as well as some workers at the building.

However, another official expressed doubts over stealing of such a huge amount of gold.

Published in Dawn, February 2nd, 2016