Not just a mugging
A woman lost her life yesterday after muggers in a microbus dragged her about 50 yards on the capital's Mirpur road for snatching her handbag.
The victim, Ayesha Akter Ripa, mother of a six-year-old daughter, was going to her sister's house at Lalmatia in a rickshaw early in the morning, said police.
It was around 6:40am when one of the muggers from the moving microbus on her right pulled her handbag, said Sub-Inspector Nurul Islam of Dhanmondi Police Station. Three to four muggers were inside the microbus.
“She kept the strap of her bag tangled with one hand. As a result, she fell down from the rickshaw,” said the SI, quoting witnesses.
The microbus didn't stop and she was dragged along until the muggers got the handbag.
Fatally injured, Ripa died while being rushed to hospital by some people, police quoted witness Ibrahim Khan as saying.
Police said they picked up Ibrahim for quizzing.
Sources at Dhaka Medical College morgue, where Ripa's autopsy was conducted, said she suffered injuries in the head and chest. Marks of dragging were spotted in her hands, legs and back.
The victim's brother Robi said they came to know about the incident when someone phoned the family.
Wife of Awlad Hossain Shimul, a land broker, 27-year-old Ripa was the youngest among five siblings.
Family members said Ripa dropped her daughter Raisa at her sister's home on Tajmahal Road on Monday night and went to the house of another sister in Dhanmondi.
Early yesterday morning, she was going to another sister's house in Lalmatia where she along with her daughter had been living for the last three years due to some problems with her husband.
According to locals, security guards at ATM booths and vendors in the area, there has been a mugging spree on the road in recent months and the criminals mostly ride on cars or motorbikes.
On September 29, Dhanmondi police nabbed two muggers while escaping in a silver car after snatching the handbag of a rickshaw passenger near Kalabagan playground.
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