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Robbers loot expat's house

10 September 2009, 17:00 PM

Staff Correspondent, Sylhet

Five people were injured by robbers who looted valuables worth Tk 3 lakh from the house of an expatriate in Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj early Wednesday. Locals and police said at dead of night, the robbers numbering about 15 entered the house of Soab Ali at Noarai village. They gave the inmates a good beating and chopped some of them with cleavers. Soab Ali, his sons Saleh Ahmed and Shahed, daughter in-law Razia Begum and daughter Zabeda sustained serious wounds. The robbers took away Saleh Ahmed's passport, gold ornaments and other valuables worth about Tk 3 lakh from the house at arms point. Saleh was scheduled to return to Saudi Arabia on the day.