Muggers stab trader

Staff Correspondent
Muggers stabbed a trader and snatched Tk 49,000 from him near a quay of Babubazar in old Dhaka last night. Victim Shah Alam, 35, owner of a food factory named Nirob Chatni at Zajira in Shariatpur district, came under attack by a gang of 8 to 10 muggers around 8:30pm while on way to his nephew's house at Kamrangirchar. They stabbed him on his two hands, he told reporters at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where he was undergoing treatment.