Staff Report
RAWALPINDI: At least 12 armed men raided a poultry farm in the Jatli area of Rawalpindi and took away 5,000 chicks after holding its employees hostage.
Poultry Farm Robbed
Waqas Ahmad, the poultry farm owner, lodged an FIR with the police saying that 10 to 12 unidentified people, some of them carrying weapons, raided his poultry farm on Thursday night and held his three employees hostage.
He said the robbers had come in three mini-trucks escorted by two motorcycle riders.
The FIR said the farm employees were tied and locked in a washroom before the robbers shifted the chickens into their trucks and sped off.
The market price of the loot was estimated at Rs3 million. Rawalpindi police have registered a case on the owner’s complaint; however, they have yet to trace the culprits.
