On loose: House robbed, shop burgled

Robbers looted gold ornaments, camera and Rs 120,000 cash and ran away.

RAWALPINDI: Robbers looted cash, gold, electronic appliances and clothes from a house and shop in separate incidents in Rawalpindi on Monday.

Khalid Mehmood of Gulshan-e-Abad told the Saddar Bairuni police that unknown robbers stormed into his house and looted gold ornaments, camera and Rs 120,000 cash and ran away. Meanwhile, unknown robbers broke into a cloth shop located in Rawat and stole 120 bundles of clothes worth Rs80,000 and cash amounting to Rs 35,000.

Owner of the shop, Tahir Mehmood lodged a complaint with Rawat police and further investigation is underway.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 2^nd, 2013.