Bagerhat Bkash worker hacked, taka 6 lakh robbed

Miscreants hacked and robbed a Bikash worker Bachchu Sheikh of a bag worth around 6 lakh taka in Kachua upazila in Bagerhat. The incident took place near the Signboard intersection in Kachua upazila at around 1:15 pm on Sunday.

The victim, Bachchu Sheikh, is a Distribution Sales Officer (DSO) of Bikash distributor ‘Javed Enterprises’. He supplies cash and e-money to various shops.

Eyewitnesses said that on Sunday afternoon, while crossing the road after trading at the Signboard Market, five unidentified miscreants on two motorcycles blocked his path and tried to snatch his bag of money.

When Bachchu Sheikh started shouting while holding the bag, the robbers took out a machete and tried to attack him and scared the people around him.

At one stage, during the scuffle, when he fell on the road, the miscreants injured him and fled towards the Bandhal-Pirojpur road with the bag containing approximately 6 lakh taka.

The incident in the afternoon has created panic and excitement among the locals. Upon receiving the news, the Kachua police station inspected the scene and started the process of taking legal action after analysing the CCTV footage of the area.

It is worth noting that in the last two months, more than 10 such robberies have occurred in various upazilas of Bagerhat, including Chitalmari.

Among them, on October 28, a Banglalink sales representative was robbed of money at gunpoint in the Old Mazar More area of Bagerhat Sadar and on September 3, another Bikash worker was robbed of money at gunpoint in the Bhadrapara area of Sadar.