12 rifles looted from jute mills in Jessore

KHULNA, Jan 22: Unidentified miscreants looted 12 rifles and 155 bullets early Wednesday morning from Ansars on duty at the security room of the Akij Jute Mills at Noapara under Abhoynagar thana in Jessore, 30 kilometres off Khulna city.

The Ansars deployed there to guard the mills were reportedly dozing, keeping the rifles on the floor and the door of the security room open.

But the FIR at the Abhoynagar thana states that an organised group of 15 masked young men stormed into the security room firing shots at the Ansars at about 3-30 am. They confined the Ansars in another room at gun point and looted the rifles and bullets and then escaped raising slogans in favour of an outlawed organisation. They also exploded hand bombs and fired several blank shots. Ansar Bishnupada Saha was injured as the miscreants fired shots while entering into the security room of the jute mills, the second biggest in the Jessore industrial belt, the FIR said.

Police rushed to the spot and took all the Ansars into custody for interrogation.

A young man identified as Iqbal Kabir was arrested this morning from Ikhtarpur village under Abhoynagar PS.