BEIRUT: Gold, diamonds and bathroom appliances were among the targets in several armed robberies and burglaries that took place across the country in the past 24 hours and topped Thursday’s police reports, a security source told The Daily Star. On Makdisi Street in Hamra, a man on a motorcycle snatched a Saudi woman’s purse which contained a diamond ring worth $20,000, identification papers and two mobile phones.
Elsewhere, a woman who took a silver Mercedes cab from the area of Ouzai to Barbir was verbally assaulted by the driver who held a knife to her face when they reached the Shatila area. The woman left the cab, leaving her purse inside, after which the cab driver stole $200 and threw the purse on the street, the source said.
In Al-Qaa in the northern Bekaa, the driver of a van pulled a knife on Syrian passenger Farhan Hamoud, 19, and robbed him of 6,000 Syrian pounds.
Meanwhile, in the town of Jal al-Dib in Metn, two thieves broke into a room inhabited by four Syrian workers and robbed them of their money at gunpoint. Similarly, in the village of Ainata in Bint Jbeil, two thieves entered a room inhabited by Syrian workers and robbed them of their money at gunpoint after impersonating policemen.
Elsewhere, a Syrian man filed a complaint at the Ramlet al-Baida police station that two men on a black motorcycle pulled a knife on him and robbed him of his identification cards and $100 in the Beirut neighborhood of Cola.
A man filed a complaint in Burj al-Barajneh that thieves broke into his real estate office in the area of Jamous, stealing $12,000 worth of sinks and bathroom appliances.
In the village of Bibnine in Akkar, a thief broke into Fouad Taleb’s home and stole LL40 million worth of gold as well as LL5 million in cash, while in Zouk Mosbeh, Kesrouan, a thief broke into Gisele Nakhle’s home, stealing $4,500, 5,000 Canadian dollars, and two iPhones.
Thieves also broke into Rawad Abboud’s home in Jeitawi and stole $3,500 and gold worth $2,500. Elsewhere, in the village of Al-Marj in the Bekaa, a thief broke into Ibrahim al-Jarrah’s home and robbed him of $5,000 in gold.
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