UNB, Chittagong :
Miscreants looted nearly 350 talas of gold from a jewellery shop and injured two people by blasting bombs at Baroahat in Mirsarai upazila on Friday.
Officer-in-charge of Jorarganj Police Station Zahidul Kabir said a group of 7-8 bandits on a microbus and a motorcycle stormed into ‘Shamim Jewelers’ at a market in the area in the evening. The gangsters kept the shop employees hostage at gunpoint and looted 300-350 talas of gold from the shop, said shop owner Shahabuddin. The hoodlums made away with the booty and blasted several crude bombs for creating panic, leaving two people-schoolboy Anik and local trader Shahjahan-injured. They were taken to a local hospital.
OC Zahidul Kabir said they are looking into the mater and trying to arrest the criminals.