New Delhi, Oct 29 (PTI) A woman, in her 30s, was shot atby two unidentified bike-borne men after she resisted theirattempt to snatch her chain in north Rohini, the police saidtoday.
The incident occurred yesterday when Priyanka Goyal, aresident of Avantika in Rohini, had gone to Sector 6 market.
While she was walking on the road near Vishram Chowk, twobike-borne men came from behind and one of them snatched hergold chain, the police said.
She caught hold of one of them and sought help from apassersby but no one came to help her since the accused wascarrying a firearm, they said.
After firing at her, the accused pushed her with his legand fled from the spot, the police said.
Goyal followed him and managed to catch hold of thecollar of the pillion rider. He hit her with the pistol andthreatened to fire at her, the police said.
He shot her in the leg and the duo fled from there withthe chain. The police were informed and she was taken to ahospital where her condition is critical, they added.
The accused were not wearing helmets, the police said,adding, they are scanning the CCTV footage from the area toidentify them. PTI SLBKJ.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.