Staff Reporter :
A five-hour raid to capture the members of an organised gang of thugs at a commercial building at Gulshan in the city went in vain as the miscreants dodging the law enforcers managed a good escape on Tuesday morning.
The members of law enforcing agencies comprising Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police and elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) conducted the raid at China Building on Bir Uttam Mir Shaukat Ali Road in Gulshan-1 area after receiving information that a gang of militants or robbers stormed the multistoried building in the area to loot goods and valuables.
Police officials said that the gang members made their escape by cutting grills from inside the building. Two bags have been found on the scene, but nothing suspicious was found inside them.
According to security personnel, a few men carrying bags entered an electronic-goods showroom in the 2nd floor of the building earlier in the morning on Tuesday. The traders shut
the all doors of the building and informed the police. Later the law enforcers arrived on the scene and launched a raid.
The law enforcers condoned the building based on suspicion of entrance of militants or robbers but the operation ended in a much-ado-about-nothing. They only recovered 17 cell phones inside the two backpacks in the building.
As the law enforcers began raiding, panic started running high among the people that deadly terror attack like July 1 at Holey Artisan Bakery could take place. As a result movement of all sorts of vehicles in the area, were restricted.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Additional Commissioner Mohammed Maruf Hassan said the law enforcers cordoned the building as they obtained information that at least four youths equipped with firearms and backpacks stormed the LG-Butterfly showroom of China Building around 6:00am.
“Armored cars and fire service vehicles were drafted into the cordon and personnel from police’s SWAT unit and RAB were rushed to close it. But the cordon and search operation for five hours in the building (Holding – 51) yielded just two backpacks with some mobile phones in it,” he said.
We have got two bags and called in the bomb disposal unit to check on their contents, he said.
When the bomb disposal unit did not find anything dangerous, the cordon was withdrawn, the ADC said, adding those who broke into a showroom in the building were possibly burglars or thieves.
There were 17 cell phones inside the two backpacks, said Rafikul Islam, Assistant Commissioner of DMP’s Gulshan Zone.
RAB-1 Deputy Commanding Officer Major Shafiul Azom Siddiqui said that miscreants dodged them technically as they could not find anybody in the building.
“However, MG Royal Securities Limited claimed that several lakh taka have been lost from their cash box,” he said.
A five-hour raid to capture the members of an organised gang of thugs at a commercial building at Gulshan in the city went in vain as the miscreants dodging the law enforcers managed a good escape on Tuesday morning.
The members of law enforcing agencies comprising Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police and elite force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) conducted the raid at China Building on Bir Uttam Mir Shaukat Ali Road in Gulshan-1 area after receiving information that a gang of militants or robbers stormed the multistoried building in the area to loot goods and valuables.
Police officials said that the gang members made their escape by cutting grills from inside the building. Two bags have been found on the scene, but nothing suspicious was found inside them.
According to security personnel, a few men carrying bags entered an electronic-goods showroom in the 2nd floor of the building earlier in the morning on Tuesday. The traders shut
the all doors of the building and informed the police. Later the law enforcers arrived on the scene and launched a raid.
The law enforcers condoned the building based on suspicion of entrance of militants or robbers but the operation ended in a much-ado-about-nothing. They only recovered 17 cell phones inside the two backpacks in the building.
As the law enforcers began raiding, panic started running high among the people that deadly terror attack like July 1 at Holey Artisan Bakery could take place. As a result movement of all sorts of vehicles in the area, were restricted.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Additional Commissioner Mohammed Maruf Hassan said the law enforcers cordoned the building as they obtained information that at least four youths equipped with firearms and backpacks stormed the LG-Butterfly showroom of China Building around 6:00am.
“Armored cars and fire service vehicles were drafted into the cordon and personnel from police’s SWAT unit and RAB were rushed to close it. But the cordon and search operation for five hours in the building (Holding – 51) yielded just two backpacks with some mobile phones in it,” he said.
We have got two bags and called in the bomb disposal unit to check on their contents, he said.
When the bomb disposal unit did not find anything dangerous, the cordon was withdrawn, the ADC said, adding those who broke into a showroom in the building were possibly burglars or thieves.
There were 17 cell phones inside the two backpacks, said Rafikul Islam, Assistant Commissioner of DMP’s Gulshan Zone.
RAB-1 Deputy Commanding Officer Major Shafiul Azom Siddiqui said that miscreants dodged them technically as they could not find anybody in the building.
“However, MG Royal Securities Limited claimed that several lakh taka have been lost from their cash box,” he said.
