Tk 7.75 lakh looted in Chittagong

The police said the daring robbery took place at around 1:30am at the office of Alam & Company, a dealer of rod and cement, on the ground floor of Hotel Hero City owned by chairman of the firm MS Alam.

Alam told journalists yesterday that three boarders named Mohammad Ali and Mohammad Iqbal from Jatrabari, Dhaka, and Rafique Ahmad from Cox's Bazar on Monday night rented two rooms in his hotel. The boarders at around 1:00am on Thursday called hotel guard Abdul Haque to a room and offered him biscuits and cold drink.

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"The guard soon became unconscious and the three burglars snatched the keys from him, entered the office and took away Tk 7,75,000 from an iron safe," Alam said, adding that the gang also ransacked his office before leaving.

Top Chittagong Metropolitan Police officials rushed to the scene early yesterday.

The police said hotel manager Abul Kalam Azad filed a case with the Kotwali police station accusing the three boarders.