Staff Reporter A university bus was looted in city on Monday as two muggers deprived the female students travelling on it of their belongings within the remits of Ibrahim Hyderi area of the city. The two criminals intercepted the bus at Bhittai Colony area in Ibrahim Hyderi and initially one of them held the driver hostage. In the meantime, the other mugger climbed the bus from the back door to deprive the female students of their mobile phones and handbags on gunpoint. The culprits remained successful in fleeing away from the scene. The parents of the students gathered soon after the incident and complained about a delayed action from the authorities. “Despite reaching out on the emergency numbers of police, they arrived an hour later at the spot,” the families claimed and said that during the entire mugging bid, the female students continued crying and yelling out of fear. They further claimed that the culprits also misbehaved with the female students of the varsity during the entire criminal episode. The police have initiated an investigation into the incident. It is pertinent to mention here that a female varsity student was killed while resisting robbery in October 2019 in Gulshan Iqbal area of Karachi.
