Burglary and vandalism on rise in Hulhumeedhoo

These days could be counted as the worst and fearful days in the history of Hulhumeedhoo. People as high as business owners to fishermen to the labourers from Bangladeshi are at stake and fear of either being attacked or burgled. The consequences of exploiting the heroin addicts, by providing them with abundance of money during the last month’s presidential election by some political parties, is backfiring the society on a very large and unimaginable scale today. Robbery and gang fight has since emerged when one political party lost their control in the ruling over the country.
A large warehouse of Seven Three, owned and managed by Mr. Azeez, is the latest retail business which became the victim of continuing series of burglaries in Hulhumeedhoo. The warehouse is situated east of the Seven Three shop and the owners felt secure enough by keeping a security guard at the west of the shop. At the time of incident security personal was present. However the thieves were on action at the store behind the shop, made the security unaware of their movements.
A screw driver is believed to have been used by the thieves to break in to the store. “Thieves used this screw driver to break the hollow cement bricks and made an opening (2x3ft).” an eyewitness of the first scenes in the morning stated. As the walls were not plastered by cement thieves faced no difficulties in breaking the blocks.
Roumers about the goods stolen from the store is spreading around the island. Some say five iron rods and unidentified amount of timber woods and an Mrf3,500 worth of Socket box were stolen. Yet no official wording from the owner of the shop, confirming the stolen goods has come. Analysts say this burglary would cost the owner approximately Mrf50,000.

In another incident yesterday a kids wear shop named "Zeek" was vandalized by smashing the window casement. Ths shop is just opposite to the new Bank of Maldives Hulhumeedhoo Branch. Normally the location is very secure because of the presence of many government buildings.
Damages to the shop wood cost at least Mrf10,000 but loss of any goods is unknown. One would wonder why such a huge social unrest is overwhelmingly on rise here in Hulhumeedhoo. The truth lies in the problem itself. DRUGS! Drugs are the perpetrator of all these burglaries in our island. We all shall stand together to eradicate this epidemic from our society rather than financing the addict for our private benefit or satisfaction. View Photos

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