Highway bus dacoity in Faridpur
BSS, Faridpur :
A daring highway dacoity in a Dhaka bound night coach from Jessore was committed in Madhukhali area here last night, but subsequently the police caught one injured dacoit and recovered all the looted goods and valuables of the passengers.
Faridpur Additional Police Super Md. Kamruzzaman told BSS today that a gang of dacoits in the guise of passengers boarded the Dhaka bound bus of Royal Paribahan on which a number of Indian nationals were also traveling.
As the night coach reached a point in between Kamarkhali and Madhukhali under Madhukhali upazila on Dhaka-Jessore Highway the dacoits took control of the vehicle at gunpoint. At one stage the dacoits stopped the coach and left with booties, including Taka 15,000 in cash and 13 suitcases, before boarding a micro-bus near Majhkandi.
Being informed, police patrol teams in the area engaged in a hot pursuit of apprehending the robbers and finally caught the micro-bus carrying about six dacoits.
At one stage the police opened fired on the fleeing miscreants which injured one dacoit identified as Anowar Hossain, 50. He hails from Bheramara of Kushtia district. The other five robbers managed to escape the scene.
The injured robber was admitted him to Faridpur Medical College Hospital.
A daring highway dacoity in a Dhaka bound night coach from Jessore was committed in Madhukhali area here last night, but subsequently the police caught one injured dacoit and recovered all the looted goods and valuables of the passengers.
Faridpur Additional Police Super Md. Kamruzzaman told BSS today that a gang of dacoits in the guise of passengers boarded the Dhaka bound bus of Royal Paribahan on which a number of Indian nationals were also traveling.
As the night coach reached a point in between Kamarkhali and Madhukhali under Madhukhali upazila on Dhaka-Jessore Highway the dacoits took control of the vehicle at gunpoint. At one stage the dacoits stopped the coach and left with booties, including Taka 15,000 in cash and 13 suitcases, before boarding a micro-bus near Majhkandi.
Being informed, police patrol teams in the area engaged in a hot pursuit of apprehending the robbers and finally caught the micro-bus carrying about six dacoits.
At one stage the police opened fired on the fleeing miscreants which injured one dacoit identified as Anowar Hossain, 50. He hails from Bheramara of Kushtia district. The other five robbers managed to escape the scene.
The injured robber was admitted him to Faridpur Medical College Hospital.
