Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) claimed to have arrested 10 robbers including the alleged mastermind in connection with looting Tk 1.74 crore from an ATM booth of Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited in Gazipur on March 3.

The elite force members recovered Tk 9 lakh of the stolen money, two pistols and bullets from their possession, according to a text message sent by Rab.

Of the arrestees, Rubel masterminded the robbery while nine others assisted him.

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On March 3, robbers looted Tk 1.74 crore before the money was to be loaded into automated teller machines (ATM) of Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur.

The incident took place at Harinhat in Kaliakoir upazila beside the Dhaka-Tangail highway around 2:30am while employees of Money Plant, a security company, were loading money into ATMs at a booth of the bank, police said.