ISLAMABAD   -   A gang of four armed robbers bur­gled a house in a private housing society in broad daylight in limits of Police Station (PS) Lohibher, in­formed sources on Wednesday.

Occurrence of the day-light rob­bery exposed the poor security set up by the management of private housing society as police have de­cided to grill the security guards and supervisor of the society to trace out the fleeing robbers, they added.

According to sources, Shehzad Farooq Qureshi, a resident of House No 119, Street 7, Phase 2 of Bahria Town, lodged complaint with PS Lo­hibher stating four armen robbers stormed into his house at 1:45pm and made the family members, a servant and two carpenters hostage on gunpoint. He added the robbers later broke the cupboards of two rooms and collected gold made jew­ellery, cash Rs 1 million, passports and registration books of vehicles and run away. Before leaving the house, robbers placed two carpen­ters under torture and threw mo­bile phones of all the family mem­bers in a water tub. Police accepted application for legal action