Garment factory looted in Gazipur
Armed robbers looted machinery and other valuables worth about Tk 15 lakh from a composite garment factory in Gazipur early hours of yesterday.
At about 3:00am, the robbers numbering about 30 equipped with lethal arms stormed into Sahaba Yan Dying and Horizon Garments near the Rajendrapur intersection.
Factory Manager Nuruzzaman Khokon told this correspondent that the robbers entered the factory premises climbing the wall, tied up 15 workers and confined 30 others in a room at gunpoint and looted motors, heavy dyeing coils, batteries of generators and other valuables. They escaped with the valuables in a pick-up van.
They beat the workers with sticks and iron bars and took away Tk 50,000 and several cellphones from them, he added.
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