Muggers stabbed a man and snatched Tk 50,000 in Mohammadpur, while criminals injured another with a bomb blast at Mohakhali in the capital yesterday.

Jalal Uddin, 55, former accounts officer of a private company, and his wife Maryam Begum were going home by rickshaw after drawing Tk 1 lakh from Agrani Bank Asad Gate Branch at 2:00pm.

As the rickshaw reached Taj Mahal Road, three muggers stopped them, stabbed Jalal in the stomach and snatched Tk 50,000 from him.

His wife rushed him to the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).

At Mohakhali Wireless Gate, bakery employee Abdul Aziz was reading newspaper inside the bakery in the morning when criminals blasted a hand-bomb.

Aziz, 20, with splinters in the legs and left hand, was rushed to the DMCH.

Some extortionists had demanded Tk 50,000 from the owner of the bakery and they might have blasted the bomb, Aziz told reporters at the DMCH.