Ctg grocer stabbed, mugged of Tk 5 lakh

23 June 2010, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent, Ctg

A gang of muggers snatched around Tk 5 lakh from a grocer after stabbing him at Colonel Hat market in the port city yesterday. The victim was Mohammad Musa, 55, proprietor of a grocery store 'Jamal and Brothers' in the market. Sources said a gang of three intercepted Musa in front of Janata Bank in the market at around 11:30am where he was going to deposit the money. The gang stabbed him in the arms, legs and forehead and left him seriously injured as he resisted mugging. They also stabbed Sohag, 27, a local trader who rushed to his help and fled the scene with the money by a CNG-run auto rickshaw. Musa and Sohag took treatment at Chittagong Medical College Hospital. Angry traders put up a barricade on Dhaka-Chittagong highway for half an hour protesting the incident.