Dozens of people staged a demonstration on Narwala Road on Tuesday to protest the killing of a jeweller during a robbery at his shop on Monday.
The protesters put up barriers and blocked the road for traffic for over an hour. They said the police had failed to control rising incidents of robberies in the area.
Jewellery businesses on Tariq Road had remained shut down on Monday in protest over Muhammad Naeem’s death from bullet injuries he suffered on resisting a robbery at his shop on Monday.
Four others – Naeem’s brother Nadeem and nephew Waqas and costumers Rukhsana and Noor Ahmad – were injured in the incident. They were under treatment at Allied Hospital.
The robbers had fled the shop with gold jewellery and cash.
In another incident in Muzaffargarh, valuables worth more than Rs10 million were taken away from a gold jewellery shop in Kanwal Market last Saturday.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 14th, 2012.
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