Businessmen robbed

A gang of robbers looted cash and valuables worth over Tk 1 lakh from 10-12 businessmen putting barricade on a road in Khajanchi area of Biswanath upazila early Friday. Police quoting witnesses said, the gang barricaded the road late at night to intercept the businessmen while they were returning home from the upazila headquarters by two CNG-run auto-rickshaws. Later, the robbers looted valuables worth Tk 1 lakh including Tk 45,000 in cash from them. As driver Ashak Ali, 40, and passenger Fakhrul, 35, tried to resist the gang, the two were beaten up indiscriminately. Ashak Ali was rushed to Sylhet Osmani Medical College and Hospital in a critical condition.