6 robbers, 9 muggers held

In two incidents of robbery and mugging, police yesterday arrested 15 people in the city.
A gang of nine armed robbers entered the fourth floor of a six-storied building at sector 11 of Pallabi on Tuesday night.
"The robbers made the inmates hostages at gun point," said Mesbahuddin, second officer of Pallabi Police Station, adding, "They forcibly took the tenant of the house to wash room and tried to behead him and his two-year-old daughter."
At this, other members of the house started crying for help and immediately the neighbours encircled the building, locked the collapsible gate and informed the police, said Mesbahuddin.
Police rushed to the spot and arrested six robbers as three of them were able to escape with Tk 1 lakh in cash and gold ornaments weighing 12 tolas.
In another incident, police arrested nine adolescents after they mugged money and mobile phone from a taxi driver near Pallabi Sangbadik Colony.