Muggers shoot two, snatch Tk 1.1cr in mob-style attack:Daily Star

Trader Abdus Salam having treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Muggers shot him in the leg while robbing him of Tk 20 lakh at Khilgaon in the capital yesterday. Photo: Courtesy Muggers shot two people and took away Tk 1.10 crore in the city's Mirpur and Khilgaon areas yesterday. In Mirpur, it was a mobster-like mugging that happened in less than 10 minutes in broad daylight. Eight muggers,
each equipped with firearms and carrying backpacks, intercepted four employees of E-zone, a bKash service providing agency and also a dealer of a mobile phone operator at Rupnagar area and took away Tk 90 lakh. The employees, escorted by four others on two motorbikes, were travelling in a car to deposit the money in two banks. Of the money, Tk 76 lakh belonged to the bKash agency and Tk 14 lakh to the dealership. The money was kept in separate places in the car.   When the car reached near Chalantika intersection around 10:05am, muggers stopped them putting a garbage-carrying rickshaw van on the road, said Nisharul Arif, deputy commissioner (Mirpur division) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police. One of the snatchers then broke the driver's window with a shovel and tried to grab the car key. As the driver tried to resist, the mugger shot him in the left leg and took the key. Advertisement The culprits took Tk 76 lakh from the car trunk and the rest of the money from inside the car, the DC said, adding that the money was kept separately as those were supposed to be deposited in two banks. They then put the money in their backpacks and went into different directions on their motorbikes. A schoolboy, who witnessed the whole incident, said the muggers were young. "The road was almost empty at that time."  The injured driver Jahid, 42, was rushed to Pongu Hospital around 11:50am, said hospital sources. He was later shifted to a private clinic, they added. Police picked up at least four people, including the driver, for quizzing but were yet to trace the snatchers, the DC mentioned. There is a mugging spree in the capital and bKash agents are seem to be the target. Between February and June this year, at least 12 such persons have fallen victim in nine incidents. In Khilgaon, muggers shot Abdus Salam, manager of Akota Store at Goran Bazar, and snatched Tk 20 lakh from him around 12:30pm. A gang of three to four muggers intercepted Salam when he was going to a Dhaka Bank branch at Goran Bazar by rickshaw to deposit the money, said Sub-inspector Kamruzzaman of Khilgaon Police Station. As Salam resisted them from snatching his bag, they shot him in the left leg and fled the scene with the money, the SI added. Injured Salam was whisked off to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for treatment.