Two men who robbed a woman at knifepoint at her home in Kanathur on Monday afternoon were nabbed by residents.
Ambika (26), selling water cans, was at her home with her young child, when three men approached her under the pretext of buying water.
They then pulled out a knife, threatened her and snatched her gold jewellery weighing 23 sovereigns and tried to flee.
When she cried out for help, passers-by chased the men and nabbed two of them and handed them over to Kanathur police. A search is on for the third man.
Gold jewellery weighing 17 sovereigns and cash amounting to Rs. 1 lakh were burgled from a house in Tondiarpet on Sunday evening.
According to police, the victim of the burglary, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, owns a cell phone shop in Burma Bazaar and lives in Patel Nagar. He had locked his home before leaving for a relative’s house along with his relatives.
When he returned around 8 p.m., he noticed the front door broken and the house ransacked.
The valuables kept in the almirah were missing.
A row of shops located inside the Broadway bus terminus were gutted in a fire on Monday. No one was injured.
Flower Bazaar police said the fire broke out around 3 a.m. at a shop selling CDs and soon spread to seven adjoining shops including a bakery, tea stall, an eatery and two juice shops. Locals alerted the fire department and five tenders with firemen rushed to the spot. They battled the blaze for over an hour and the fire was finally put out by 4.15 a.m. The cause of the fire is being investigated.
