- Sufferer and brother had been additionally robbed of their month’s wage.
- CPLC says 90 individuals have been killed by road criminals in metropolis.
- Over 50,000 road crime incidents recorded from Jan -Aug 2024.
KARACHI: A person was shot by robbers after he refused at hand over his motorcycle to them within the metropolis’s Sarjani Sector 36 space, police informed Geo Information.
In keeping with the police, the person — Faisal — resisted the road criminals after they robbed him and his brother within the space earlier than opening fireplace on the former.
Faisal was severely injured after being shot and was rushed to the hospital the place he succumbed to his wounds throughout therapy.
Talking to journalists exterior the mortuary, the sufferer’s brother mentioned that he and Faisal had been robbed of their belonging, together with their salaries, on gunpoint by two gunmen on motorcycle.
The criminals opened fireplace and fled after the sufferer resisted with them, he mentioned.
“We work in a manufacturing facility and had been going residence after receiving the wage. They [robbers] informed my brother at hand over his bike however he refused,” mentioned Faisal’s brother.
The sufferer’s father, Shabbir, lamented that the felony snatched Rs80,000 from each the brothers.
“Theft incidents are a each day routine within the space, mentioned the daddy.
Road crimes in Karachi are rampant with greater than 50,000 incidents documented by the Residents-Police Liaison Committee (CPLC) between January and August this yr.
It needs to be famous that the aforementioned quantity solely displays reported circumstances, however there could also be numerous different incident which have gone unreported.
The determine reveals that on a mean, 208 felony circumstances are reported each day within the metropolis, with the snatching and stealing of cell phones, automobiles and motorbikes being the commonest.
Not solely have individuals been disadvantaged of their helpful possessions in these circumstances however some 100 individuals have additionally misplaced their lives by the hands of the road criminals accountable. Almost 500 others have additionally been wounded because of the gunshots fired by the robbers.