Muggers shoot 2 bKash agents, loot Tk 13 lakh

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Staff Reporter :A gang of unidentified muggers looted Tk 13 lakh after shooting two employees of bKash, a mobile phone money transfer provider, in the city’s Kafrul area on Saturday morning.The victims are Mosharraf, 35, and Alamin, 32, collected the money from a number of bKash agents of Mirpur Section-13 area. They were admitted to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital in critical condition.Quoting the victims, General Manager of the bKash company Zainul Abedin said, “When they were returning to the office of distributors Mirpur Section-14, five to six muggers, on riding two motorcycles, intercepted their motorbike opposite to the Police Staff College around 10:15 am.” As the two employees tried to resist the muggers, gunshots were heard and the criminals fled the scene with the money, leaving them injured, he said.Mosharraf sustained bullet injuries in his two hands, while Alamin in one hand.Assistant Commissioner (Pallabi Zone) of DMP Zakir Hossain said, police are trying to arrest the culprits.A General Diary was filed with the Kafrul Police Station in this connection, the police official said.

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