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Bridal party robbed
Robbers looted cash, gold ornaments and other valuables from a microbus carrying a bridal party in Bela area of Chandina upazila early yesterday. Police said a masked gang stormed into the microbus in the area at about 1:30am. The bridal party was coming from Elaspur of Barura upazila. The robbers took away 30 tolas of gold ornaments, 22 cell phone sets, Tk 50,000 in cash and other valuables from the members of the bridal party. The gang also beat up the microbus driver and two passengers mercilessly when they tried to resist them. In Madaripur, four people were arrested while trying to commit a robbery on a bus at Karnapara on Dhaka-Barisal highway in Kalkini upazila on Friday night. The arrestees were identified as Billal Howlader, 25, Murad Hossain, 25, Didar Bepari, 28, and Zakir Hossain, 26. They hailed from the district town. Kalkini police said a gang while trying to commit robbery at the bus of Sarbik Paribahan at about 9:00pm at the point, local people besieged them. Sensing danger when the robbers started fleeing, local people after a hot chase, caught four of them.
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