Four robbers made off with Rs 4 million from the branch of a private bank at the Civic Centre, located within the jurisdiction of the Aziz Bhatti police station, on Wednesday.
Police said that four armed men, dressed in jeans and shirt, snatched the weapon of the bank’s security and beat him up on resistance. Later, they held the bank manager and other staff hostage at gunpoint, grabbed Rs 4 million in cash from the bank’s counter and escaped.
They also took the bank’s CCTV camera footage along with them. The bank manager has lodged an FIR at the police station.
MURDERS AND SUICIDE: A man named Waseem Shah was murdered by unidentified people in Defence Phase-VII within the jurisdiction of the Gizri police station on Wednesday.
Separately, police found the bullet-riddled body of a man near the shoe market at Nishtar Road, within the jurisdiction of the Garden police station. The victim could not be identified till the filing of this report.
A woman named Rahat Bibi allegedly committed suicide after a quarrel with her husband over a minor dispute.
ARREST: Police arrested two men on Wednesday and recovered weapons from their possession. The law enforcers said the arrested men are affiliated with the banned outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and were planning to attack a Muharram procession.
