KARACHI: Students of Karachi University onboard a university bus were deprived of their valuables in Karachi’s Banaras area on Tuesday morning.
Police said at least five muggers onboard a bus, carrying over 50 male and female students of Karachi University, when it reached near Bacha Khan Chowk near Banaras bridge in Banaras area.
The robbers deprived the students of their mobile phones, cash and other valuables on the gun point in the hurried heist, before getting away.
The students, later, gathered outside Abdullah College in Nazimabad area, and staged protest against the incident.
Bus robberies are common in the city, a hub of Pakistan’s economic activities and home to 18 million people, plague by political and ethnic violence, gang war activities and street crimes.