Audacious robbery cases have taken place in Ho Chi Minh City center.
In Tan Phu District, Nguyen Duc Thang and his wife Nguyen Thi Ngoc Chau were on a motorbike one morning in June when a young man suddenly accosted them and snatched Chau’s gold chain.
Hearing their shouts for help, many people chased after the thief and caught him. But he drew a knife and stabbed Tran Van Thanh, one of them.
The local police came immediately to arrest the thief who was later identified as Nguyen Van Minh, 21, of Ward 14, District 11.
At dawn on June 24, NDD, a journalist, was riding his motorbike from Tan Son Nhat airport to the city center. Near Marie Curie High School on Nam Ky Khoi Nghia Street, a motorbike crashed into the back of his, throwing D sprawling on the road.
The two men who had crashed into him stopped and snatched his laptop and a bag. Two other motorbikes came up, pretended to help D, and seized his backpack.
At around noon on June 22, NVC of District 8 stopped his bike at the Hai Ba Trung-Vo Thi Sau intersection in district 1 when a group of men on motorbikes collided with him. After C fell, some women and children joined them to surround him and demand compensation. C was shocked and confused and did not know what to do. But after yelling for a while, the group suddenly left. They had stolen VND20 million (US$1,000) from his bag.
At the end of June, at a parking lot on Pasteur Street in District 1, a young man stole a motorbike and sped past the attendants and on to the road. People in the area say motorbikes are often stolen there, with the thieves breaking the steering column lock or making away with bikes in which their owners left the key.
Outskirts dangerous
One night in June, TTL was riding near the Binh Thai crossroads in Thu Duc District when a group of drug addicts on seven motorbikes confronted him. They forced him to stop, foraged his pocket for money, and were about to pull out the key of his motorbike when L acted quickly. He took the key himself, kicked the bike down and ran on the street shouting for help. Many people stopped to help and the thieves had to flee.
When L reached Rach Chiec Bridge, he came across a young man who had fallen victim to a similar gang and lost all his belongings.
Motorbike-taxi drivers say that after 10 pm there are many robberies and attacks in the area from Rach Chiec Bridge to the Saigon Hi-tech Industrial Park in District 9. The victims are mostly women or couples on motorcycles.
In many cases, young men were also robbed. The District 9 police have arrested six people who used knives, sticks, and electric rods to attack and rob people.
There have also been many attacks, even murders, by thieves in the Vinh Loc Industrial Zone.
In May, TTV, a student, was found lying dead in the zone in Binh Chanh District and his laptop had been stolen.
In June the local police arrested Tran Trung Duong, 26, of Nam Dinh Province and Nguyen Anh Kiet, 23, of District 12 when they forced a young man on their motorbike at knifepoint and took him to Vinh Loc to steal his belongings.
At the police station, the duo admitted to killing TTV to steal his laptop. They often wandered along National Road 1A to look for potential prey, slight young men or students with laptops.
They would approach a victim and ask him threateningly if he had just beaten their younger brother. Then they would force him to follow them to a deserted area in Vinh Loc and rob him, not hesitating to stab the victim if he resisted.
NDAK of District 8 was stabbed to death by three young men when he stopped at Vo Van Kiet Road in Binh Tan District. The murderers then stole his motorbike and escaped.
A reader wrote in to Tuoi Tre last month to say that on Hiep Binh Road in Thu Duc District there had been nearly 10 audacious robberies in just two weeks.
The city police say there have been 199 robberies this year. They claim to have solved 115 cases and arrested 224 people.
Colonel Mai Van Tan, chief of criminal investigation at the Social Order Department, said armed robberies and attacks are often committed by drug addicts.
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