‘Robbers’ gun down livestock trader
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Robbers broke into a house in Shah Latif Town on Thursday, killing the owner and taking off with cash and other valuables.
The deceased was identified as Muhammad Ayaz Lashari, 50, a buffalo trader by profession. The brother of a police constable at Shah Latif Police Station, he left behind nine children.
According to Lashari's brother, constable Mukhtar, Lashari was asleep in his house when four robbers broke in by scaling a wall. They wiped the house of all belongings, five mobile phones, and cash, as well as three tolas worth of jewellery.
The perpetrators were leaving when Lashari managed to restrain one of them. The other robbers shot Lashari in the neck, critically injuring him, and fled.
With a neighbour's help, Lashari's family managed to shift him to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where Lashari succumbed to the wound.
According to Lashari's wife and son, Lashari had lent out around Rs4 million to various people in connection with buffalo trading. One of the debtors was a police official named Rana who owed Lashari Rs1.2m.
Rana also owns a cattle shed and had promised to pay the debt on Thursday, they told The Express Tribune. One of the debtors had also fled and Lashari had planned to go after him on Thursday.
The police suspect that the incident that took Lashari's life is connected with the matter of debt collection and has only been disguised as a robbery to mislead the police.
Dacoits kill man
Separately, a man was shot and killed by robbers for offering resistance during a mugging bid in Zia Colony in Korangi.
The body was shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where the deceased was identified as 36-year-old Arshad.
Korangi SHO Shehzada Saleem stated that Arshad had been sitting by the street with a friend when two robbers approached them and tried to snatch their mobile phone.
The police were trying to find bullet shells from the crime scene and seek further information from the victim's friend at the time of filing of this report.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 9th, 2020.