{"id":47569,"date":"2026-04-13T21:04:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=47569"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:04:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:04:37","slug":"robbers-hold-families-hostage-loot-3-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=47569","title":{"rendered":"Robbers hold families hostage, loot 3 homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Seven armed robbers looted three houses after holding residents hostage in a late-night incident in the Sarai Sidhu police limits, officials said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>According to details, the incident took place around 2:00am in the Pul Gamo Wali area, where the suspects, armed with pistols and rifles, entered the house of a commission agent, Nawazish Ali, by scaling the boundary wall.<\/p>\n<p>The robbers held the family at gunpoint and looted Rs500,000 in cash.<\/p>\n<p>They then forced Nawazish Ali to accompany them to his brother Sadaqat&#8217;s house, where they confined the family members in a room, seized their mobile phones, and took away gold jewellery worth Rs1 million.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects later moved to the house of a third brother, Asif Ali, an employee of a sensitive institution who was posted in another city.<\/p>\n<p>The robbers held his family hostage, locked them in a room, confiscated their mobile phones, and looted Rs100,000 in cash and gold jewellery worth Rs1.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the robbers continued their looting spree for nearly half an hour before locking the residents inside their homes and fleeing the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Upon receiving information, SP CCD Ishaq Sial, DSP Kabirwala Circle Munawar Gujjar, and SHO Sarai Sidhu reached the site.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven armed robbers looted three houses after holding residents hostage in a late-night incident in the Sarai Sidhu police limits, officials said on Saturday. According to details, the incident took place around 2:00am in the Pul Gamo Wali area, where the suspects, armed with pistols and rifles, entered the house of a commission agent, Nawazish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}