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Narayanganj mob beats 8 robbers to death
[Dhaka Tribune] At least eight members of an organised gang of robbers were beaten to death by a mob who caught them red handed when they were trying to steal rice sacks from a store at Purundi Bazar of Araihazar in Narayanganj early yesterday.Four of them were killed before the police reached the spot near the Dhaka-Sylhet highway around 6am. Witnesses said two robbers died in presence of police, the body of another was recovered from a ditch around 7am while another died in a local hospital around 1pm. Police have identified four of the dear departed from the mobile phones found on their bodies. They are truck driver Rony, 35, of Noakhali; Jewel alias Titu, 32; Shawkat, 30; and Rubel, 28, from Mymensingh. Four other robbers were placed in durance vile Book 'im, Mahmoud! from the spot. They are Lokman, 28, Sajib, 27, Manik, 25, and Sabbir, 22. Of them, all but Lokman hail from different areas of Mymensingh. Three of them are currently undergoing treatment at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital at death's door. Law enforcers have also recovered the truck onto which the robbers were loading the sacks stolen from Bhai Bhai Store, owned by one Gafur Bhuiyan. Two cases were filed over the incident last night -- one for robbery and the other for murder against several thousand people. According to local people, there have been several incidents of robbery and theft in the area in recent times, but law enforcers have not been able to solve any of the cases. One of the robberies took place at Bagbari Bazar around 20 days ago during which robbers snatched around 180 sacks of rice from a store. National Human Rights Commission Chairman Mizanur Rahman expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... s over the death of the eight robbers in mob beating. According to the statistics compiled by rights group Ain o Salish Kendra, at least 104 people were reportedly killed in mob beating in different areas between January and September this year. Of them, 50 were killed in Dhaka and 17 in Chittagong. Police said the gang comprised 18-20 members who rented the truck from the capital's Tejgaon area on Wednesday. OC (investigation) Arifur Rahman of the Araihazar police said the robbers went to the Purinda Bazar with the truck -- numbered Dhaka Metro Ta-18 4311 -- around 4am and asked the on-duty security guards about the location of Bhai Bhai Store. Posted by: Fred 2015-12-11 |
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