Staff Reporter :
A man succumbed to his injuries in a city hospital after muggers shot him in broad daylight and made off with Tk 290,000 in the capital’s Rampura area on Sunday afternoon.
The deceased was identified as Ismail Hossain, 36, son of late Mustafa. He was the manager of a shop owned by his cousin on DIT Road, said Ramna Police Station Sub-Inspector Jewel Mia.
The police official said, “A group of muggers numbering four to five shot Ismail at Natun Road area in Hajipara of Rampura around 2:45pm and took away the money from his possession, leaving him injured critically.
Ismail was on way to the local branch of Dutch Bangla Bank Limited to deposit the money, he said.
Ismail’s cousin ‘Mintu’ said that his brother had withdrawn the money from a bank and was on way to deposit it at another bank when he was attacked by several muggers.
The muggers fled with the money, Mintu said.
Pedestrians had rushed Ismail to a local clinic at first. He was then shifted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital where doctors declared him dead, the hospital’s police outpost SI Md Julhas Hossain said.
He said, that they were yet to find the perpetrators, but the investigation was on.
The body was handed over to the family members of the victim, the SI said.
