A young man was shot dead during an armed robbery yesterday as he put up resistance while driving his car with his father inside on the University Road of Gulshan-i-Iqbal.
According to the police, the 21-year-old deceased, Umer Butt was killed near Al-Jadeed Super¬market in the busy Mosamiyat area.
Four robbers riding on two motorbikes were snatching at gunpoint the cash and mobile phone from the victim’s father who sat on the passenger seat of their car.
SSP-East Qamar Raza Jiskani said that Butt reached out for his pistol and right then the robbers opened fire.
We only stopped there to buy fruits when the robbers flanked us and wielded their guns, the father said. My son was killed for resistance right before my eyes, he grieved.I survived the firing, my son couldn’t, the grieving father said.
The case has been registered with the Mobina Town Police Station on the complaint of Sarfaraz Butt, victim’s father and an eye witness to the gory incident.
