Members of Rapid Action Battalion have arrested 26 alleged members of mugging and extortionist gangs during separate raids at different areas in Dhaka yesterday.
Two alleged muggers were killed in “shootout” with detectives in Dhaka’s Khilkhet area early today.
A woman is injured in Dhaka’s Gulistan when a snatcher pulled away her earring in front of Golap Shah Mazar.
Two policemen and an alleged mugger were injured in a “gunfight” between law enforcers and a group of muggers at Chattogram city's Marine Drive road yesterday.
A civil auditor of Bangladesh Air Force was stabbed dead in a “mugging incident” in Jessore town yesterday morning.
Muggers killed two young men in separate incidents yesterday, in which one of the victim's were shot and the other stabbed, in the capital's Demra and Sabujbagh areas.
Zakir Hossain was walking back home when four people stopped him at the capital's Hazaribagh around 8:30pm on Friday. At knife point, they asked him to hand over cash and valuables. As he wouldn't give in, the muggers stabbed him and took away Tk 20,000.
The instant reaction of a clothe trader saved his Tk 42 lakh from being taken by muggers in the city's Gulistan area yesterday afternoon.
Muggers in a car pulled the handbag of a woman, dragged her about 200 yards on a street and drove the vehicle over her in Dhanmondi area of the capital yesterday morning.
Muggers stabbed a youth to death in Kuril Bishwa Road area of Dhaka.
Muggers shoot an employee of a gold jewellery shop and snatch away Tk 25 lakh from him in Tanti Bazar in Old Dhaka.
Muggers shoot a sales representative of the mobile money transfer service provider bKash and snatched Tk 3.2 lakh in the capital’s Badda area.
Police claim to have arrested seven alleged muggers during a drive near Ispahani Intersection of Lalkhan Bazar in Chittagong city.
Muggers snatch away Tk 16 lakh from a businessman after shooting him in his left leg in the old part of Dhaka.
Muggers allegedly shot a youth and snatched Tk 8.77 lakhs from him in Lalbagh area of Dhaka