Dubai Four workers have been accused assaulting two security guards and stabbing one of them in his posterior while they tried to steal electric cables from a construction site.

The Pakistani quartet, aged between 34 and 44, were said to have sneaked into the site to steal electric cables and when the Pakistani security guards tried to prevent them, the assaulted them and tied them up and stabbed one of them in his backside in August.

When one of the guards started shouting and crying for help in an attempt to foil the quartet’s theft attempt, according to records, one of the men stabbed him with a small knife.

Records said the four men failed to steal any of the cables and ran away after they took one of the guard’s mobile phone.

Prosecutors charged the four suspects with attempting to steal cables, stealing a mobile phone and stabbing a security guard.

The suspects pleaded guilty before the Dubai Court of First Instance and confessed that they tried to rob the cables.

According to the charge-sheet, prosecutors said the defendants abused the fact that it was late at night when they sneaked into the construction site in an attempt to steal electric cables.

Records said an unidentified number of suspects, who remain at large, participated in the heist attempt.

However, they contended before presiding judge Urfan Omar that one of the runaway suspects stabbed the injured security guard.

The stabbed Pakistani guard testified that he spotted men crawling into the site from under the concrete blocks surrounding the place.

“One of them carried a knife while another one carried a rope. They ordered me to remain still and silent. They roped me and one of them stood watching me while the others went to steal the cables. I shouted loudly in an attempt to capture the attention of anybody passing by … the person, who was watching me, suddenly stabbed me with the knife. I turned quickly to avoid being stabbed in my belly and instead got hit in my posterior. The suspects then ran away,” he claimed to prosecutors.

Records said the suspects were apprehended after the incident and during questioning they claimed that the runaway suspects were the one who masterminded the theft and offered to pay each of them Dh200.

A ruling will be heard on December 29.