KARACHI: No respite for Karachiites from the menace of street crimes as a five-year-old girl got injured from the firing resorted to by armed muggers in Karachi, ARY News reported on Thursday.
A CCTV footage showed the terrifying incident of robbery in Karachi’s Gulistan-e-Johar area. A minor girl was hit by a bullet when the armed muggers opened fire at a citizen.
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The incident took place near Gulistan-e-Johar’s Kamran Chowrangi yesterday. The footage showed the dacoits looting valuables from a citizen. During the robbery, a citizen opened fire at the dacoits.
The muggers carried out response firing at the citizen but a five-year-old girl namely Anum became a victim of the gunshot.
The video showed Anum walking along the road with other children and she fell to the ground after receiving a bullet. The passersby immediately shifted the wounded girl to the hospital.
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Police told the media that Anum received a bullet in her shoulder and her condition is out of danger. The girl would be discharged from the hospital in a few days.
Some eyewitnesses told the media that five muggers on two motorcycles were looting valuables from citizens. The girl received the gunshot while returning from a shop amid firing.
An eyewitness said that the citizen who was robbed by the muggers shifted the wounded girl to a private hospital.
Yesterday, a father-son duo was brutally killed by armed dacoits for resisting the robbery in Karachi’s Korangi area.
Senior Superintendent Police (SSP) Korangi told the media that armed dacoits killed the father-son duo at a book shop over resistance. The slain men were identified as Muhammad Hassan, 70, and Asad, 37.
The CCTV footage of the terrifying incident showed three robbers entering a book shop and opening fire at the shop owners over resistance.
The bodies were shifted to the hospital by rescue officials.
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