Muggers kill bus passenger
Snatchers in the guise of passengers killed an unidentified man, aged around 38, by hacking him inside a microbus in the city's Pallabi early yesterday.
Police said snatchers hacked the victim and left him on Pallabi embankment road around 6:45am. The victim was going to Mirpur-1 from Abdullahpur by a microbus.
Golam Zakaria, a witness and passenger of the vehicle, said he was coming from Jamalpur that morning and was waiting at Abdullahpur bus stand along with the victim to grab a ride for Mirpur.
"We boarded a white microbus bound for Mirpur-1. It had five passengers inside. After a while they brandished arms and tied up us with ropes", Zakaria said.
The snatchers took away money from Zakaria and got him down at Pallabi. Then he called a sub-inspector of Turag Police Station over the phone.
According to Zakaria, Turag police asked the microbus to stop while passing a police check post, but it did not stop.
Police chased the microbus and found it abandoned a kilometre away from the check post as the snatchers had fled.
On information from locals, police recovered the injured man lying unconscious and took him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). He died around 9:15am.
Body of the victim, wearing jeans and shirt, was sent to DMCH morgue for autopsy.
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