7 injured as robbers fire at villagers
Seven people were injured as armed robbers opened fire on the villagers at Imam Nagar village under Boalkhali upazila of the district early yesterday.
The bullet-hit villagers are Joynal Abedin, 35, Manirul Huda, 18, Rokon Mian, 22, Shamsul Alam, 45, Morshed Alam, 36, Mostafa Kamal, 21, and Joynal Abedin, 34.
Locals said a gang of robbers stormed into the houses of Mohammad Ishak and Jamir Ahmed at the village at around 3:45am.
They looted seven tolas of gold ornaments, three mobile phone sets, money and other valuables from the houses and beat up three--Ishak, Khurshida and Fazlul Haque--as they tried to resist the gang, said local union parishad (UP) member Mrinal Kanti Biswas.
When the members of the two families cried for help, the villagers chased the robbers who opened fire, leaving seven of them (villagers) injured, he said.
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