Security guard shot dead by armed muggers
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A security guard was shot dead by armed muggers in the Sharifabad area of FB Area on Tuesday.
As per details, armed robbers, who had previously looted men withdrawing money from ATMs in Liaquatabad’s Bandhani Colony, fled seeing Rangers. They abandoned their motorcycle in Bandhani Colony and entered the narrow lanes of Sharifabad, where they snatched a motorcycle from a man named Rizwan and fatally shot a security guard.
The deceased guard, a father of two, had plans to leave Karachi on Chand Raat to celebrate Eidul Fitr with his family in Larkana.
Identified as 30-year-old Waheed Baloch, the guard, employed by a private security company, was fatally shot near the Gharibabad area of Sharifabad. His body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital by police.
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According to a police spokesperson, the deadly shooting took place amid snap checking operations conducted jointly by police and Rangers on vehicles heading towards Liaquatabad on Sir Shah Sulaiman Road, near Bandhani Colony. The perpetrators, fearing arrest, abandoned their motorcycle and fled the scene.
Eyewitnesses from Sharifabad recounted that two robbers, fleeing after looting people at an ATM in Bandhani Colony, panicked upon seeing the Rangers' checkpoint. Ignoring their motorcycle, the bandits crossed into Sharifabad, where they tried to steal another motorcycle at gunpoint from a resident named Rizwan.
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When the security guard intervened, one of the muggers fatally shot the guard in the chest and neck. The robbers escaped with Rizwan's motorcycle, leaving the guard critically injured.
Waheed Baloch, the deceased, hailed from Larkana and had been working as a security guard in Sharifabad for the past year. His plans to reunite with his family for Eid were cut short by the ruthless muggers in Karachi.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 10th, 2024.