Robbery at Rangs Toshiba Showroom
Electronic goods worth over Tk 8 lakh looted
Trader robbed of Tk 5.75 lakh
Staff Correspondent
Robbers looted electronic goods worth over Tk 8 lakh from a showroom of Rangs Toshiba at Lalbagh in the city early yesterday and a trader was robbed of Tk 5.75 lakh in another incident in the same area on Saturday night.Police said a gang of 10 robbers in black dresses came to the Rangs showroom at 12 Harnath Ghosh Road at about 3:30am in a pick-up van. Identifying themselves as members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), they asked security guards Jayanta and Jamaluddin to open the gate of the veranda. As soon as the guards opened the gate, the criminals, armed with machetes and hockey sticks, entered and tied mufflers around the faces and hands of the guards. The gang then broke open the showroom and took away 22 television sets, eight VCD sets, 23 cameras and five DVD sets worth Tk 8,08,830, according to the first information report (FIR) filed by Zahirul Islam, a sales executive. In the other incident, two muggers wielding daggers waylaid one Hossain, a rice wholesaler, at Kellarmor at about 9:00pm on Saturday and snatched Tk 5.75 lakh from him when he was returning home from his shop at Shaheed Nagar by a rickshaw. Protesting the incident, his fellow traders kept their shops closed for several hours yesterday morning. They also took out a procession and demanded security for the businessman.
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