Workplace robbery: Yarn stock stolen

FAISALABAD: Yarn stock and other valuables were taken away from a power loom in Thikriwala police station precincts on Tuesday. Police quoted the FIR registered on complaint of loom owner Riyasat Ali as saying that 15 armed men forced an entry into his loom in Chak 66-JB, Dhandra Billomor, and held the labourers at gunpoint. They said the robbers fled with 15 cell phones, a rifle and cloth and yarn stock worth over Rs.3.5 million.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 14^th, 2012.