{"id":22835,"date":"2026-07-14T16:35:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22835"},"modified":"2026-07-14T16:35:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T11:35:21","slug":"young-man-killed-in-clifton-bank-robbery-shooting-as-robbers-escape-with-rs2-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/?p=22835","title":{"rendered":"\u00a0Young Man Killed in Clifton Bank Robbery Shooting as Robbers Escape with Rs2.5 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A young man was killed in a shooting during a robbery outside a bank in Karachi&#8217;s Clifton area, while the suspects escaped with Rs2.5 million out of the Rs5 million that had been withdrawn from the bank.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) South Mahzoor Ali said that a young man identified as Akash, along with his father and a companion, had withdrawn Rs5 million from a private bank near Teen Talwar. They had arrived outside a bank in Boat Basin to deposit the money when armed suspects attacked their vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>According to the police, the bank&#8217;s security guard opened fire during the incident, prompting the suspects to return fire. During the exchange of gunfire, Akash was killed, while the suspects fled after stealing a bag containing Rs2.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said an investigation has been launched from every possible angle, and efforts are underway to arrest the suspects. They added that those responsible will be brought to justice as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that the deceased, 28-year-old Akash, was a doctor by profession and had accompanied his father to withdraw the cash from the bank. The security guard who opened fire during the incident has also been taken into custody.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A young man was killed in a shooting during a robbery outside a bank in Karachi&#8217;s Clifton area, while the suspects escaped with Rs2.5 million out of the Rs5 million that had been withdrawn from the bank. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) South Mahzoor Ali said that a young man identified as Akash, along with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowgLK2DA:productID":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,46,36],"tags":[13092,11604,74,289,2690,12598],"class_list":["post-22835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-latest","category-pakistan","tag-akash","tag-clifton","tag-karachi","tag-police","tag-robbery","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22837,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22835\/revisions\/22837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakalerts.net\/english\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}