Six robbers arrested

Unb, Munshiganj
Members of Rab and police in separate drives arrested 6 robbers from Dohar upazila in Dhaka and a youth from Tongibari upazila here on Monday night. The arrestees are Bachchu Molla, 48, Jamal Hossain, 28, Nazrul Islam, 27, Iliyas Molla, 20, Md Bahalul, 28, and Md Raju, 20. The youth was identified as Russell, 22, son of late Sirajul Huq Paik of Chap village of Tongibari. Rab sources said they held the six robbers from Kulchhari village in Dohar late at night while preparing to commit a robbery and took them to Bhaigyakul Rab camp in Munshiganj for interrogation. A pipe gun and a number of sharp weapons were recovered from them. Later they handed them over to Dohar police. In another drive, police arrested Russell from Tongibari upazila headquarters in the district and recovered an American-made pistol from his possession.