‘Rickshaw gang’ loots Rs13.7m from DHA shop
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In yet another brazen incident, a 'rickshaw gang' looted a mobile phone shop in the Sahar Commercial area of DHA, Phase VII, on Sunday, fleeing with cell phones and cash worth Rs13.7 million.
As per detail, an auto rickshaw pulled up outside the mobile phones shop and two men pretending to be customers entered the shop. Their two accomplices followed a few moments later.
Once inside, all of them took out their handguns and took the shopkeeper, salesmen, customers, and security guard hostage.
They robbed the shop with ease before making their escape, with the entire incident captured on CCTV.
The shop owner said that the robbers came at 3:45pm.
"The robbers were dressed in shalwar kameez and talked to each other in Pashto language," the shop owner told The Express Tribune.
"They stole expensive phones and cash worth Rs13.7 million from the shop."
Disturbed by increasing robberies in the DHA, the shop owners blocked a road in the area and closed down the mobile markets on Khayaban-e-Shahbaz and Khayaban-e-Sehar.
They blocked two roads and shouted slogans against police.
District South SSP Asad Raza said that a similar robbery involving a 'rickshaw gang' had taken place in the Darakhshan area last month.
He added that he had met the shop owner and a case had been registered.
"We have also obtained CCTV footage which is being examined," he said.
He added that the bandits wore masks during the robbery, "but in parts of the footage, their faces are identifiable.
Shot over resistance A youth was injured while resisting a robbery in Surjani Town on the Northern Bypass.
He was shifted to a hospital on Stadium Road where he was identified as 25-yearold Ayaz Khan.
Police registered the case and started investigation.
Separately, suspected muggers shot and injured two brothers over resistance during a robbery attempt near Rehmania Masjid in Ittehad Town on the night between Saturday and Sunday.
They fled after looting cash and mobile phones from the two brothers.