ISLAMABAD, Dec 12: Armed men barged into two flats in the city in daytime on Tuesday, robbed the housewives in there and stabbed one of them to death before the eyes of her six-year-old son.

Habibullah, the terrified son, described the heinous crime to his father Ijaz Hussain when he returned to his flat in Sector I- 9/4 from his job of assistant manager in the Carrier Telephone Industry.

Three men burst into their flat when his mother, Iffat Jabeen, answered the door bell, tied both of them with ropes and taped their mouths, Habibullah said.

One robber had a pistol in his hand and the other two daggers with which they slit the mother’s neck.

Then they upturned the whole house in search of valuables as the boy watched his mother dying helplessly.

Ijaz Hussain reckoned the robbers struck between 1pm and 2pm. They found no cash but police said some gold ornaments were found missing.

“It could be a robbery or planned murder,” DSP I-9 Jameel Hashmi told reporters. “It looks they were very professional criminals”.

Fauzia Shahid, a senior journalist and former secretary- general of the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists, was similarly robbed in her flat in G-8.

She said the robbers barged in as she answered the doorbell and forced her to hand them Rs11,000 in cash, a camera valuing Rs13,000 and a cellphone.

As the robbers were fleeing with their booty, she bit one of them in the thumb causing it to bleed.

But luckily the robbers were in too much of a hurry to escape than to retaliate.

Meanwhile, a student of engineering college and his two friends were robbed of cash and cellphones at gunpoint by a gang of robbers near the Holy Family Hospital on Monday night.

Waqas Dabeer, along with his two friends was on their way to home when a gang of six robbers intercepted him near the Holy Family Hospital and forced them to hand over their cellphones and wallets.

The robbers snatched three cellphones and wallets and even took away the jacket of one of them.

The father of Waqas told Dawn that shortly after the robbery, he along with his son went to the New Town police station to lodge an FIR.

But police refused to register a robbery case instead they asked the victim to give a complaint of “missing of their wallet” and not to mention the snatching of wallet at gunpoint.

Meanwhile, another person was shot at and injured during a robbery attempt in the New Town police area on Monday night, police said.

Aizaz Azeem, in a complaint to police said that he was robbed of his cellphone and cash.

He said that he was shot at and injured by the robbers when he threw away his cellphone.

Later, the robbers disappeared from the scene.