KARACHI: Police on Monday claimed to have recovered Rs5 million looted from a cardiologist during a robbery at his house and arrested the ringleader of an “Afghan gang”.

The police in a ceremony handed over the recovered amount to Dr Anwar Jalil.

Jamshed Town SP Farooq Bijarani said that the recovery was made following the arrest of suspect Ghulam Sakhi alias Kurkury, said to be the ringleader of the gang.

He was allegedly involved in over 50 house robberies and was arrested in an injured condition recently following an “encounter” in PECHS during a house robbery.

Two men commit suicide

A 50-year-old man committed suicide on Monday, according to police.

They added that Sohail Aslam cut his wrists to end his life in his house in Faqeera Goth off Superhighway.

Area SHO Safdar Mashwani said that exact motive could not be ascertained immediately as the man lived alone.

The body was shifted to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital to fulfil legal formalities.

In another incident, a man committed suicide in the Khokhrapar area on Monday.

Police said Mohammad Qasim, 25, ended his life by hanging himself inside his Madina Colony home.

The body was shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre.

Area SHO Sardar Abbasi said he had become an addict.

One dies as factory roof collapses

A man was killed and four others sustained injuries when the roof of a room of a factory in SITE collapsed, rescue sources said on Monday, according to APP.

They said some labourers were working in the factory when the incident took place. As a result, one person died on the spot while the injured were being shifted to a nearby hospital for medical treatment.

A rescue operation was under way to remove the rubble so that trapped factory workers could be recovered.

Published in Dawn, March 30th, 2021*