Gunmen loot jewellery market in Taxila

Police yet to specify exact amount of gold looted; one robber shot and injured

ISLAMABAD: Rawalpindi police were left groping in dark after gunmen looted at least five jewellery shops in Taxila city on Sunday afternoon.

The grand robbery took place around 4pm but until evening, the police had not even established how many robbers were there and how much gold had been stolen.

Taxila Station House Office (SHO) inspector Riaz said the gunmen arrived on bikes at around 3:45pm and looted at least five jewellers.

“There were three or four or five men according to different accounts. Two of them were in uniforms of private security guards and others were wearing shalwar qameez. The jewelers have not told us how much gold was stolen,” he said.

The SHO relayed that there was an exchange of fire too and one of the robbers was reportedly injured but his fellows managed to take him away too.



He added that police teams had been constituted and raids were underway but no arrest had been made thus far.

Police said they were keeping an eye on all public and private hospitals and clinics as one of the robbers had been injured and might seek medical care.

However, police could not tell how the robbers vanished into thin air after plundering the whole market in broad daylight.

“Teams have been constituted under the supervision of a superintendent of police for arrest of the robbers,” said a spokesperson for Rawalpindi police.

He said they had also contacted police officials in the neighbouring Islamabad, Attock and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa for help in arresting the suspects.