Just-engaged couple mugged of Tk 7 lakh valuables
Some muggers snatched around Tk 7 lakh worth valuables from a couple who were hanging out with their cousins just after their engagement ceremony in the capital's Dhanmondi Road-9 area early yesterday.
The muggers took away three tolas of gold ornaments, five cellphones and the groom's watch, worth over Tk 1.6 lakh, said Anwar Parvez Halim, maternal uncle of the groom, Faysal Hasan Chowdhury.
He said the couple was chatting with four of their cousins in two cars just a stone's throw from their residence around 1:00am when two cars suddenly appeared and four muggers, armed with three machetes and a firearm, came out.
Although the muggers took away the valuables, the bride was able to hide her ornaments under her seat just as she saw the suspicious vehicles approach. Before leaving, the muggers broke a window of one of the victims' cars, said Anwar.
However, in their hurry to escape, the muggers dropped some papers, including a visiting card belonging to, as the card read, a Supreme Court advocate, Mahbubur Rahman, and his ATM card.
When this correspondent called the contact number on the visiting card, Mahbubur answered and claimed that he was also mugged of Tk 20,000 and some important documents on the same area in Dhanmondi just 15 minutes to 1:00am.
Dhanmondi police said they heard about the incident but nobody had filed any case in this regard.
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