Ludhiana: A brazen, armed street robbery caught on camera has sparked fresh safety concerns in the city, highlighting a persistent surge in local snatching offences.The incident’s CCTV footage circulating on social media shows a woman being targeted by motorcycle-borne thieves at about 1 am on Thursday in Guru Arjan Dev Nagar. Carrying a purse and a bag, she stopped beside a parked car as two men on a motorcycle approached her.The pillion rider dismounted and attempted to grab her purse. When the woman resisted, the assailant threatened her with a machete, seized the bag, and fled with his accomplice. The footage also captured a second motorcycle following the attackers, with police suspecting those riders were accomplices.A local resident reported waking to the woman’s screams, prompting her husband to check their home’s live security feed, which had captured the robbery. Division Number 7 police are trying to trace the suspects and identify the robbed woman, who hasn’t reported the incident yet.
