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The Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested six people for their suspected involvement in the shooting and robbing of a gold trader in the capital's Banasree last month. The detectives have also recovered the looted 200 bhoris of gold and arms from the arrestees, according to a press release issued by DMP this morning (8 March).
DMP Commissioner Sheikh Md Sazzat Ali will brief the media on the matter at the DMP Media Centre at 12:15pm today, added the release, signed by DMP Deputy Commissioner (DC – Media and Public Relations) Talebur Rahman. That the robbery was carried out by a professional gang of robbers. They had surveyed the area for several days.
The gang operates both in and outside Dhaka, with members spread across different locations. Each of the arrestees has multiple cases against them, said the official. On 23 February night, the gold trader -- identified as Anwar Hossain, owner of Alankar Jewellers -- was shot and stabbed by six armed men on three motorcycles in front of his house at Banasree.
He was headed home after closing his shop located in the same area when he was shot at by a total of six rounds of bullets and one bullet hit him, police said. Anwar was initially taken to nearby Farayzi Hospital and then shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
Inspector Md Faruk, the in-charge of the DMCH police outpost, said Anwar was brought to the hospital with bullet wounds and injuries from sharp weapons. After being taken to the hospital, Anwar told the police that he was heading home after closing his shop at night with 200 bhoris of gold and Tk1 lakh.
"At that time, about six people on three motorcycles tried to snatch the bag I had with me. When I tried to stop them, they shot me. They took away the gold and money," he had said.
Rampura Police Station Officer-in-Charge Mohammad Ataur Rahman Akand told The Business Standard the armed men first tried to snatch his belongings, but when he retaliated, a man wearing a red helmet shot him and another stabbed him and snatched away all his belongings.
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