{"id":54206,"date":"2024-10-29T17:58:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T12:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=54206"},"modified":"2024-10-29T17:58:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T12:58:46","slug":"major-bank-robbery-strikes-islamabad-again-in-just-2-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/islamabad\/major-bank-robbery-strikes-islamabad-again-in-just-2-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Bank robbery strikes Islamabad again in just 2 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Within two days, a second bank <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/karachi\/over-100-killed-in-karachi-during-robbery-resistance-in-2024\/\">robbery<\/a> rocked Islamabad, killing one person and injuring several others when armed robbers ambushed a cash van outside a National Bank branch in Sector G-9\/4.<\/p>\n<p>The robbers, wearing helmets to avoid recognition, opened fire on the security team, swiftly taking a bag of cash before fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Two security guards and three passers-by from a nearby hotel were hit by bullets, and all five were taken to PIMS Hospital. Tragically, one of the hotel&#8217;s employees succumbed to his injuries while being treated, adding to public concern over the recent rise in brazen attacks.<\/p>\n<p>This follows another violent rampage just a day earlier, where two cash vans were targeted in separate armed robberies, injuring six security personnel. In the first incident, which took place in Sector G-9\/3, a robber approached a cash van outside a private bank and opened fire on guards carrying cash bags, but the guards managed to stop the theft.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after, another robbery attempt targeted a cash van in the G-15 centre, just 10 km away. A similar ambush took place when the van was parked near a commercial bank, resulting in a shootout in which five guards were injured. Despite the chaos, the cash van driver&#8217;s quick response helped prevent the robbers from stealing the funds.<\/p>\n<p>With these series of coordinated robberies, Islamabad authorities have stepped up security and are using the Safe City surveillance system to track down those responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Within two days, a second bank robbery rocked Islamabad, killing one person and injuring several others when armed robbers ambushed a cash van outside a National Bank branch in Sector G-9\/4. The robbers, wearing helmets to avoid recognition, opened fire on the security team, swiftly taking a bag of cash before fleeing the scene. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":54207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,14809],"tags":[23450,23451],"class_list":["post-54206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-islamabad","tag-national-bank","tag-sector-g-9-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54209,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54206\/revisions\/54209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}