UNB, Dhaka :
Police on Wednesday arrested four suspected muggers from the city’s Mirpur area in connection with the murder of a dentist at Shewrapara in the capital.
The arrestees were Raihan Sohel alias Apan, 27, Rasel Hossain Hawlader, 25, Ariyan Khan Ridoy, 23, and Solaiman, 23.
Dentist Ahmed Mahi Bulbul was a stabbed to death by a professional mugging gang, said AKM Hafiz Akhter, additional commissioner (detectives) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police told a press briefing.
During preliminary interrogation, the arrestees confessed that they are professional muggers.
Five people including the four arrestees gathered on Begum Rokeya Sarani to rob the dentist coming on an auto-rickshaw, according to the detectives.
On Sunday, when the auto-rickshaw carrying Bulbul reached Kazipara Begum Rokeya Memorial in front of Navana Showroom, the five muggers intercepted the vehicle and attempted to snatch his valuables, said the official.
At one point, the muggers stabbed the doctor as he resisted the mugging.
Later, he was rushed to Al-Helal Hospital first and then to Suhrawardi Medical College and Hospital where doctors declared him dead.
Police also recovered cash Tk 12,000 and a mobile phone set from his possession.
Ahmed Mahi Bulbul used to work in a clinic at Moghbazar. He was known as ‘Gariber Doctor’ (The doctor of the poor) in his locality.
An operation is on to arrest the other member of the gang, said AKM Hafiz Akhter.
