Eight highway robbers arrested
Four robbers were arrested while they were committing a robbery in a night coach on Gopalganj-Tekerhat road in Sadar upazila early yesterday.
Police said a group of seven or eight robbers barricaded the road with logs. When the Khulna-bound coach from the capital stopped there at about 3:45am, the gang started robbing the passengers of their belongings.
As the victims raised an alarm, patrol police rushed in and caught four robbers -- Rafiqul, Rasul Jamader, Miraj and Mintu Kaji.
Acting on information given by the arrestees, the police arrested four more robbers -- Zahid, Idris, Firoz and Surat -- from Khalishpur in Khulna.
The eight robbers, all hailing from different areas in Bagerhat and Khulna districts, confessed that they committed 20 robberies on Gopalganj-Tekerhat highway.
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