RAWALPINDI, Feb 5: Two persons were killed and eight robberies committed in Rawalpindi and Islamabad on Wednesday, police said.
In the first incident, some unidentified persons killed a person in Amarpura (Waris Khan) on early Wednesday morning. According to details, forty-year-old man Salahuddin, a part-time taxi driver, was on his way to home after parking his vehicle (SLG-448) a few hundred feet away from his house in Amarpura when some unidentified persons intercepted him and shot him dead, police said.
Saleem Ahmed, the deceased’s son, lodged a complaint with the Waris Khan police stating that his father was a part-time taxi driver and had left his house on Tuesday night.
He told the police that a boy came to his house at dawn and informed him that his father was lying in a pool of blood outside his house. The injured expired, while he was being shifted to the Rawalpindi General Hospital, the police said.
The deceased’s son claimed that neither he nor did his father had any enmity with anyone. A case was registered and investigation started.
In the second incident, a 16-year-old boy was run over by a speeding truck on Peshawar road near Tarnol on Wednesday, police said.
Ishtiaq Ahmed, a resident of Sangjani, was crossing the road when he was run over by a truck number IDT-2886. The trick driver escaped from the scene.
ROBBERIES: Three robbers entered a house in Magistrate Colony on Tuesday night and looted cash and gold jewellry after taking the inmates at gunpoint.
Mohammad Tahir, a resident of 83-A Magistrate Colony, Sadiqabad, lodged an FIR with the police saying that three unidentified persons entered his house and held his son Omer, 15, and Zohaib, servant, at gunpoint.
The robbers looted 20 tolas of gold jewellry including bangles and rings and cash including the foreign currency. While the robbers were ransacking the house, Tahir returned to his home and started crying for help on seeing the robbers inside.
The robbers, who got panicked on hearing the hue and cry, managed to escape with the booty. They also opened fire at Tahir when they saw him giving them a chase.
Hayat Hussain, a resident of I-10/4 sector, lost gold jewellry, cash and cameras when some persons broke into his house in the absence of the family, police said.
In another such incident, some unidentified burglars broke into the house of Adil Ayaz in I-8/2 and made off with gold jewellry including bangles, earrings, tape recorder and local and foreign currency. The burglary took place when the family was out of the city.
Meanwhile, the car of Ghulam Dastgir was stolen from the parking lot of the Federal Government Education Directorate, Civil Lines area, while a motorcycle number RIW-3033 was lifted from Saddar.
Imtiaz Ahmed’s motorcycle number LHS-3871 was stolen from sector I-9, while another motorcycle number LOH-6919 was lifted from F-10. A Suzuki Mehran car was stolen from Westridge.