Muggers snatch Tk 26 lakh in Munshiganj

Muggers snatched away Tk 26 lakh from two passengers of two buses in separate incidents at Chaltipara and Ramerkhola in Sirajdikhan upazila on Tuesday night.

Locals said a gang of 8-10 miscreants introducing themselves as members of Detective Branch (DB) came in a microbus and intercepted a passenger bus of Great Bikrampur and they caught and handcuffed bus passenger Raja of Sadarpur upazila in Faridpur district as a murder case accused.

They later snatched Tk 17 lakh from Raja and fled from the spot at about 9:30pm.

Later, the gang again intercepted another bus of Ilish Paribahan and caught Jewel at Ramerkhela at about 10:30pm and looted Tk 9 lakh from him. Jewel hailed form Satgaon village in Sreenagar upazila of Munshiganj.

Sreenagar thana OC Md Shakhawat Hosain said they were informed of the incident.

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