Jewellery looted in city
Robbers looted gold ornaments from a jewellery shop at Bakshibazar in the old part of the city yesterday.
Mohammad Shahjahan, owner of the jewellery shop 'New Shohag Jewellers' at 10/7 Bakshibazar lane, said robbers on gunpoint breaking locker of the shop, looted gold ornaments and cash at about 4:00 am.
A group of four armed robbers knock the door of the shop at about 4:00am and forcibly entered the shop as soon as his brother Abu Taher opened the door, he added.
Shahjahan claimed that robbers looted around 52 tolas of gold ornaments worth Tk about 52 thousand.
Abu Taher and an employee of the shop Paltan used to sleep inside the shop, he said. Shahjahan had been running the shop for last 35 years while his employee Paltan serving for eleven years, he added. Police picked up Abu Taher, Paltan and three night guards of the area for interrogation, police said. A case was filed in this collection.
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