Woman survives 2014 style fatal mugging

A woman was left disoriented falling off a rickshaw when muggers jerked her handbag, containing Tk 5,000 and her cellphone, away from her grip near the Shajahanpur graveyard in the capital yesterday around 6:15am.

Momtaz Begum's husband Abdus Salam Kazi told The Daily Star that they were headed towards the Gulistan bus terminal when a sedan slowed down with three youths inside, one of whom snatched the handbag.

"She became unconscious as her head hit the tarmac in a terrible way," he said, adding that Momtaz was having difficulty recognising people. She was treated at Dhaka Medical College Hospital and released.

In a similar incident in 2014, a six-year-old's mother, Ayesha Akter Ripa, died after being pulled off a rickshaw and dragged from Sobhanbagh mosque to Rapa Plaza on Mirpur road early in the morning.

Some muggers inside a running microbus had grabbed and kept holding on to her handbag, the straps of which were fastened around her hand.