KARACHI: Robbers looted gold ornaments worth over Rs15 million from a house in Karachi’s Pakistan Employees Cooperative Housing Society (PECHS) area, the police said on Thursday.
According to details, five armed robbers with their faces covered entered the residence in PECHS Block 6, within the limits of Tipu Sultan police station, and locked up the family members in a room. The robbers collected gold and silver ornaments worth about Rs15 million and three laptops and escaped.
Detailing the incident, the owner of the house named Fauzia said the dacoits barged into the house early morning around 5am. The woman said due to a problem in her bank locker, she brought the gold and silver to the home.
Earlier this year, unidentified criminals broke into a gold jewellery shop near Teen Talwar monument in Karachi and looted gold worth millions of rupees.
A case was registered at the Clifton police station over the complaint of Asif who stated in the First Information Report (FIR) that he returned to his home after closing the jewellery shop before iftaar on May 3.
He had added that he found four locks of his gold jewellery shop broken on the next day on May 3. The burglars had stolen nearly 12-kilogram of gold jewellery.
