On Wednesday afternoon, police received reports of a mugging in the Gare district, where a man had a chain ripped from around his neck in a violent altercation.

Late on Wednesday afternoon, police officers were called out to an altercation between two men in the capital's Gare district. When they arrived on the scene, one of the men had fled. The victim told officers he had pursued the perpetrator after the latter had ripped a chain from around his neck. The subsequent chase ended in a violent physical altercation between the two men, but the perpetrator had managed to flee after the tussle ended.

Police have launched an investigation into the matter.