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19 March 2024

Pepper sprayers try to snatch Dh400,000

Three men attacked a woman in the stair well of a building, sprayed pepper powder on her face and tried to steal her laptop bag which contained Dh400,000. (File)

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By Eman Al Baik

Two Pakistanis, along with an accomplice, allegedly attacked a woman in the stair well, sprayed pepper powder on her face and tried to steal her laptop bag which contained Dh400,000, the Dubai Criminal Court heard.

Along with two men, LR, 26, Chinese, was climbing the stairs to her house on the second floor of her building in Fareej Ayal Nasser area using the stairs.

“When we reached the first floor, three men were coming down the stairs. When they got close to us, one of them sprayed something at my face. I closed my eyes which were burning but I held on to the bag very firmly as I felt that someone was trying to snatch it from me,” she told investigators.

Her compatriot companions YW, 24, and ZH, 25, told investigators that one of the men also sprayed the substance on their faces. “We turned our faces and jumped on the man who tried to snatch the laptop bag from LR,” they said.

The two men jumped on two of the three attackers, managed to control them, dragged them to the ground floor and called the police.

Police arrested two brothers aged 23 and 28, both of whom have the initials MH.

The court will reconvene on December 10.