Police arrested an alleged member of a robbery gang which raped a woman and took away passengers’ valuables after taking control of a bus on the Dhaka-Tangail highway on Wednesday.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam today advised city dwellers to leave their gold ornaments with relatives who live nearby before leaving Dhaka city during Eid.

Motin alias Moitta Dakat, the ringleader of a 50-member gang, had been conducting robbery for the past 20 years. He and his men broke into at least 100 households and looted many people at gunpoint during the time.

Banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad Bangladesh (Huji) had been engaged in fund collection through robbery to reorganise itself and free a death row inmate either by ambushing a prison van or attacking a jail, police said.

Two men were killed by a mob after allegedly being caught red-handed while committing robbery at Kaliganj in Gazipur yesterday.

US swimmer Ryan Lochte is slapped with a 10-month suspension following his bogus gunpoint robbery story during a drunken night out at the Olympics.

The Brazilian authorities have charged US swimming star Ryan Lochte with making a false statement about being robbed at gunpoint during the Olympics.

One man was killed and two others injured during “gunfights” with police in Narail, Jessore and Satkhira districts early yesterday.

Police yesterday arrested two Iranian citizens on charges of robbery at a filling station in Faridpur.

Two alleged robbers, who were involved in a jewellery shop robbery in February, are killed in a "gunfight" with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Mirsarai upazila of Chittagong.

Armed robbers have allegedly broken into the house of a freedom fighter and shot him dead in Gazipur city.

Four suspected robbers are beaten to death and another two critically injured by a mob at Noakhali's Hatiya late last night.

Police have detained two persons in connection with robbing a fast-track ATM booth of Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd at Harinhat in Gazipur's Kaliakoir upazila.

Robbers looted Tk 1.74 crore before the money was to be loaded into automated teller machines (ATM) of Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited in Gazipur yesterday.

Suspected robbers loot Tk 1.20 crore from an ATM booth of Dutch-Bangla Bank Limited in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur, police say.

A group of robbers loot around 100 bhori of gold and ornaments from a jewellery shop under broad daylight in Dhaka’s Demra area.

A suspected robber is killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion as he along with his cohorts attempted to rob Sonali Bank’s branch in Dhamrai upazila of Dhaka. Rab claims to have detained five persons in connection with the bank heist.

Miscreants shoot two bKash agents and snatch away Tk 13 lakh from them in Kafrul area of Dhaka.

A woman dies of fear and three other people are injured by splinters as criminals blasted several crude bombs during a robbery at a jewellery shop in Dhaka’s Kuril area.

Robbers stab and shoot three siblings during a burglary gone wrong at their house in Mohakhali of Dhaka.