Published on 12:00 AM, May 25, 2008

Bus robbery in Narsingdi

Robbers looted valuables from the passengers of a bus at Hazibagan in Shibpur upazila on Friday night after injuring five people critically.
Sources said a gang of robbers boarded the Dhaka-bound bus in the guise of passengers from Hazibagan and took control over the steering instantly at gunpoint at about 9.00pm.
Later, they looted cash and valuables worth over Tk 2 lakh from the passengers.
The bandits also stabbed five passengers when they tried to resist leaving them seriously injured, and got down from the bus.