BISP: Two injured as armed men flee with Rs10m

Police said three men on a motorcycle stopped five post office employees and demanded to handover the cash.

BAHAWALPUR:

A post office cashier and a clerk were injured on Tuesday while resisting armed men, who they said deprived them of Rs10 million.

Police said three men on a motorcycle stopped five post office employees, including Abdur Rasheed, the cashier, and a clerk, Mohammad Naseem Khan, and demanded that they handover the cash.

When the two men resisted, the robbers beat them before fleeing away with the money.

The injured were taken to tehsil head quarters hospital by their colleagues. Doctors treating them said their condition was now out of danger.

Rasheed told police that the cash, drawn from National Bank’s Katchery Road Branch, was meant to be distributed under the Benazir Income Support Programme. He said they were intercepted near Ahmedpur East post office at around noon and deprived of the cash. He said he and the clerk tried to stop them, but they hit back and injured their heads.

He said the robbers fired several shots in the air while fleeing. City Police SHO Mohammad Nawaz Bhatti cordoned off the area. No arrests have been made so far.

Published In The Express Tribune, June 13^th, 2012.