Crime spirals in city
Muggers critically injured a police constable with sharp weapons and snatched his bicycle, cellphone and wallet in city's Badda area yesterday morning.
The victim Nazrul Islam, 38, of Badda police camp, was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital with wounds in his chest and back.
Nazrul Islam told The Daily Star that around 7:30 am the muggers called him by his name and attacked him on post office lane in Shahjadpur while he was returning home on his bicycle after duty.
He said he was in civil outfit since he returned his firearm and uniform to the authorities concerned.
"As I refused to handover my belongings the snatchers stabbed me and left the scene taking my mobile phone, wallet and bicycle," Nazrul said.
He, however, could not identify anybody.
In another incident in the city's Jatrabari, a gang looted cellphones, cash and gold ornaments worth Tk 2 lakh from passengers of a Chittagong bound bus yesterday morning. The bus started from Saidabad bus terminal.
Police have detained Azizul, 35, the driver of the bus and his helper Golam Hossain, 40, for interrogation.
Sub-inspector (SI) Abdul Kuddus of Jatrabari Police Station said around 10:00am a gang of seven to eight robbers got into the bus as passengers near Fatema Naz Filling station at Jatrabari. They robbed the passengers keeping them at gunpoint and got down at Shanirakhra, he added.
Quoting Azizul, SI Kuddus said a passenger with his ticket in hand asked to stop the bus near the filling station. As he was getting on the robbers forcefully got on the bus.
Supervisor of the bus Golam Hossain told police that there was no ticket counter of their transport company there and the driver was not authorised to pick up passengers from such spots.
The passengers of the bus claimed the driver and his helper's involvement in the incident as they halted to pick up the suspected passenger. They also said the driver and the helper were not kept at gunpoint during the whole time.
The SI said the detained driver and helper might be involved in the crime as they halted the bus and picked a passenger giving the robbers a chance to get into the bus.
The supervisor of the bus filed a case with Jatrabari Police Station accusing the driver, helper and seven to eight others.
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