12 robbers held with booty
Police yesterday arrested 12 robbers in Mirzapur upazila under Tangail district while the gang was fleeing in a microbus after committing a robbery on a passenger bus on the Dhaka-Tangail highway.
The armed robbers in guise of passengers boarded a Tangail bound bus of Dhaleswari Paribahan from Mohakhali in the capital at around 9:30pm and looted money and other valuables from bus passengers, police said.
When the bus reached Pakulla in Mirzapur upazila at around11: 30pm, the gang got down from it and was fleeing in a microbus.
On information, police took position in Charpara area, intercepted the microbus and arrested the robbers. The law enforcers also recovered 29 mobile phone sets, Tk 56,000 and some lethal weapons from their (robbers) possession.
Police said the arrested robbers hail from Mymensingh, Jamalpur, Barisal and Tangail.
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