Four dacoits loot Rs.9.8 million from a local bank branch

Karachi: (PPI) Four unidentified dacoits looted Rs9.8 million from the branch of Al-Meezan bank at Seelani Chowk in the limits of Bahdurabad police station on Friday. The bank is located near Rangoonwala Hall at Seelani Chowk, where the four unidentified robbers entered and snatched repeater guns and TT pistols from the two guards deployed inside the bank, Said DSP New Town Abdul Majeed Rind. The robbers looted Rs 9.8 million from the bank cashier and managed to flee after completing their swift operation within eight to ten minutes, the eyewitnesses and police said. The bank is situated at busiest place where four banks- Al-Meezan, Al-Habib, UBL and Metropolitan have branches near to each other. The incident occurred at peak hours of Friday. When the dacoits were managing to flee from the scene the people understood that they were carrying their own cash because they completed their operation very immediately and easily, the DSP added. DSP further said,''We had deployed two police constables for all four banks branches and there was also the alarm system but no one had given caution to police constables or switched on the alarm. We were informed after 15 minutes of incident when the bank manager phoned us." DSP said,''When we received information about the incident, we immediately rushed to spot and started probe. He said it is premature to say that any employee of bank was involved and provided the information to dacoits. Bahadurabad police have registered the case no 141/09 under section 395 against unidentified dacoits on the complain of bank manager Muhammad Usman.