Shops looted as lock-breakers go on spree

A gang of criminals comprising five armed outlaws, including a woman, looted shops after breaking the locks in Gulshan-e-Hadeed and fled with valuables worth millions of rupees.

Reportedly, the gang, in a car, reached the market, broke the locks of a jewellery shop, a mobile phone shop and a retail shop, and decamped with gold ornaments, cash and other valuables.

SHO Steel Town Aslam Baloo told The Express Tribune that the incident occurred at 5:30am on Monday. A female member engaged the guard in talks and in the meantime her accomplices overpowered him. They then broke the locks, and stole five tolas of gold, Rs150,000 in cash from the jewellery shop and the retail shop.