Rising crime: Robbers strike house

Police registered a case against the robbers but no arrests or recoveries had been made till the filing of this story.


Our Correspondent September 23, 2014

GUJAR KHAN:


Armed robbers struck at a house in Gujar Khan and decamped with foreign currency and jewellery worth hundreds of thousands of rupees, it was reported on Monday.


Police sources said a  dozen masked robbers broke into the house of Qamar Abbas in Sandal Town by climbing its boundary wall around midnight on Sunday.


They ransacked the house after locking the family members in a room and made away with Rs150,000 cash, 1,000 pounds in British sterling, 30 carats jewellery, an LCD,
mobile phones and other valuables.


The police registered a case against the robbers but no arrests or recoveries had been made till the filing of this story.


Meanwhile, in Wah Cantt, a man was booked for allegedly stealing
cloth from a shop on Monday.


The shop owner, Mushtaq Ahmed, lodged a report with the local police that Muhammad Ismail along with his companion entered his shop in Wah city by breaking its locks and decamped with cloth worth Rs1.5 million.


The police registered a case against the suspected man and an investigation is under way.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 23rd, 2014.

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