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29 March 2024

Gruesome murder in Dubai's Rashidiya: Police nabs gang

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By VM Sathish

Dubai Police arrested the gang allegedly involved in a gruesome murder that shocked the residents of Al Rashidiya this Friday.

The suspects, nabbed from Sharjah, were taken to the site of crime on Monday morning, the owner of the shop that was looted, told Emirates24|7.

A steel safe containing cash, telephone cards worth Dh60,000 along with 70 passports of employees and some driving licences kept in the locker went missing on the night Haneefa Kappil, 32, was killed.

Kappil – who hails from Kerala - was an employee of Abu Hail restaurant in Al Ramool, Al Rashidiya, which is adjacent to the shop.

He was found murdered in a garage nearby. His head was smashed presumably with bricks.

The crime seemed to have been well planned as the gang members – a Chinese and four Russians – had earlier visited the shop posing as customers along with women and kids.

There is a common wall separating the grocery and restaurant and the restaurant employee is believed to have seen the gang stealing the steel locker, opined Mahmood, the shop owner.

The victim was alone at the restaurant and he was cleaning the kitchen floor in the wee hours of Friday morning.

The suspects could have seen him at work in the restaurant and called him out to the garage and attacked him, it is believed.

CCTV footages of the place show the suspects visiting the place earlier in trousers and T-shirts. However, while robbing the place they were dressed in pyjama-kurta [dress worn by South Asians].

Two members of the gang are clearly visible on the CCTV grabs, wearing face masks and gloves.

Kappil has been an employee of the restaurant for the last five years.

The incident came to light when his friends went looking for him as he did not return at the expected time.

Kappil was the sole bread-winner of his family back home.

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