Gold worth Rs1.8 m stolen from jewellery shop in Karachi

Thieves stole jewellery worth Rs1.8 m milllion by cutting through shop shutter.

KARACHI: Gold worth Rs1.8 million was stolen from a jewellery shop in the crowded market of Keamari, Express News reported on Wednesday.

The report said the thieves entered the shop by cutting the shutter. No case has been registered as yet.

The owners of the shops protested against the theft and demanded the arrest of the unidentified thieves and immediate recovery of the gold.

Earlier in December 2012, a similar case happened in a Islamabad shop when jewellery worth Rs7 million and Rs200,000 in cash was looted by four armed robbers.