Islamabad: Robbers loot 10 persons one-by-one in Sector G-8/1

[Naveed Yaseen]

Shakeel Anjum
Robbers looted ten persons one-by-one in Sector G-8/1 here on Saturday evening, a victim told ‘The News’.

The daring gangsters kept on looting pedestrians for over one hour without any resistance. The victims were so terrified that they could not even utter a single word of protest or call out for help.

SSP (Islamabad) Tahir Alam Khan, when contacted by ‘The News’ on Sunday, said that he was unaware about the incident. However he said that it was the prime duty of police to protect people’s life and property. He said that police would take action against criminals upon receiving a complaint.

Israr Ahmad, one of the victims, told ‘The News’ that he was crossing through a bunch of trees near old Sunday Bazaar via a pedestrian bridge at around 6:45 p.m. when two gunmen intercepted him and put their guns at his temple asking him to hand over cash and mobile phone. He said that two robbers were standing near the pedestrian bridge and the other was guarding them at about 50 feet distance towards Service Road near the bridge and residential blocks.

“I surrendered Rs11,000 cash and mobile phone worth Rs25,000 and asked them to let me go,” Israr Ahmad said. But they humiliated him using filthy language and asked him to stand quietly till the end of the ‘operation’. “Blow his head off if he resists,” one of them directed his accomplice.

“Then they robbed over ten passersby one-by-one and ordered them to stay there,” Israr Ahmad said. They used abusive language during the looting spree, he said, adding that the victims were so scared that they were not even able to talk to one another.

One of the victims was a lecturer in a college. He introduced himself to the gangsters to seek mercy but they thrashed him like anything, Israr said. According to him, the lecturer started weeping like a child. He said that one of the young victims urinated in his pants when the gangsters put their guns at his temple.

When asked why they didn’t react, as they were ten people, Israr said, “We only feared for our lives during the looting spree. We didn’t think of anything else.”

“Robbers used abusive language. Perhaps they were residents of a slum located a few hundred feet from the crime scene in the same sector,” Israr said. They were looking like professional criminals and they were committing heinous street crime with confidence.

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