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22 April 2010, 18:00 PM

METROPOLITAN

Staff Correspondent

A student of Tejgaon College was shot while trying to catch a mugger at West Monipur in the capital's Mirpur yesterday. Police arrested mugger Sohel, 22, and recovered a pistol. Victim Walid Ibn Siddique (Shawon), a second year student of marketing department, was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital with bullet wound in his jaw. Shawon said he was playing cricket with his friends at Maikwala Masjid Lane in the afternoon when he heard a hue and cry and saw three armed muggers running down the lane with a mob chasing them. He hit the fleeing Sohel with his cricket bat, prompting Sohel to fire at him, he said, adding that after firing three shots, the magazine of the thug's pistol dropped to the ground. In spite of his injuries, he caught Sohel and handed him over to the police.