Bangladesh : Another highway robbery in city, 1 killed

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A fish trader was killed and a trucker injured when robbers took away their fish-laden pickup-van throwing them from a running truck in the capital’s Mohakhali area early Thursday.

The incident took place when the owners of the truck and covered-van have been observing a 48-hour strike from Tuesday to press home their 14-point demand that include an end to highway robbery, extortion and police harassment.

The deceased was identified as Hafizur while the injured as Yusuf.

Bhuiyan Mahbub Hasan, officer-in-charge (OC) of Banani Police Station, quoting trucker Yusuf told The Daily Star that the robbers waylaid them keeping a truck across the road near Rawa Club in Mohakhali area around 4:00am.

They were on way to Abdullahpur in Uttara after loading the pickup-van with 32-carton of fish from Karwan Bazar of the city.

When Yusuf was forced to stop his pickup-van, the robbers tied them with rope and put them into the truck, the Banani OC said.

Later, some members of the gang went away with the pickup-van and another gang beat Hafizur and Yusuf severely and threw Hafizur there, the OC went on saying that the robbers threw away Yusuf in Uttara.

Locals whisked off both the victims to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where duty doctors declared Hafizur dead.

Yusuf is undergoing treatment at the hospital.

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