After a suspected gas leak explosion caused a bank building to collapse in Karachi’s Shershah area, some heartless people were seen stealing cash and trying to take away an iron safe from the rubble as many others helped the injured.
A bank security guard told journalists that the explosion blew away currency notes which were picked up by people, while a bank safe, still intact, was seen among the debris and some people tried to pull it away.
Another bank safe and the ATM were flung into the nullah.The security guard told media that several people pocketed cash from the scene.
“A man told me that he saw two bundles of Rs5, 000 notes in the hands of one person,” he said.
The guard, who arrived at the scene from the security company head office after the blast, said some good Samaritans handed a few bags of banknotes to him.
He said another security guard, who was deputed at the bank and was wounded in the blast, called the company and told that people were taking away cash.
The injured guard also pleaded with the policemen to stop people from stealing money, he said.
Ali Habib, a senior bank office, told journalists that all the cash has insurance cover and customers will not incur any loss.