Robbers in guise of tenants kill woman
A new breed of robbers, who masqueraded as tenants and even made an advance payment, killed a 35-year-old daughter of the house owner in the capital's Jatrabari on Friday night.
Sadekun Nahar Nigar died from blunt injuries to the head, said sources of the morgue at Sir Salimullah Medical College.
The criminals looted Tk 85,000 in cash, two laptops, a tablet computer and four mobile phones, said family members.
A few days ago, Nigar's father SM Kamruzzam put up a "To Let" sign in front of the three-storey building.
Two men visited the house on Wednesday and made some advance payment to rent the ground floor, the victim's brother-in-law Jasim Uddin Khan told The Daily Star.
The same men along with 5-7 others came on Friday night around 10:30pm and entered the apartment on the pretext of further discussing the deal, he said.
“The men took Nigar and her parents to three separate rooms as soon as they entered the apartment and tied them up,” he said.
After taking the cash and electronic gadgets, the robbers asked Nigar's father for the key to a locker.
When he said the key was not in their apartment, the robbers said they were taking Nigar with them and would return her if Tk 5 crore was given to them as ransom.
After the robbers left around 11:30pm, her mother untied herself and screamed for help.
When the neighbours came in around 1:30am, they found Nigar's body wrapped in a mattress.
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