Robbers beat up family members, loot 3 houses
Robbers beat up members of three houses and looted valuables in Sadar upazila early yesterday.
The gang looted 17 tolas of gold ornaments and Tk33, 000 from the house of Hakim Uddin at Bongkhuri village at around 1:30 am.
Family members said, masked robbers entered the house by breaking open the door and beat up the 70-year-old house owner and his wife seriously.
The robbers then went to the house of Anis Mridha of Kafatia village at around 2:00am. They looted Tk28000, about three tolas of gold ornament and three mobile sets from the house. The criminals also beat up the house inmates with iron rods.
Selim Hossain, son of Hakim Uddin, later filed a case with Manikganj Sadar police station.
In another incident, the robbers beat up inmates of a house at Pakbagicha Girls' School Road in the district town with iron rods.
Abdul Mannan Khan Dollar, 22, son of house owner MA Rauf Khan, was taken to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital with serious head injuries.
Rauf told this correspondent that some masked young boys wearing lungi and black dresses, entered the first floor early yesterday by breaking open the wooden gate.
Entering the room, the criminals first beat up domestic help Moriam. As housewife Nadia Afroz came ahead the robbers attacked him with a knife, Rauf said.
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