‘Muggers’ snatched away a truck loaded with 16 cattle from a group of cattle traders at Manik Mia Avenue in the city’ s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area early Saturday.Four of the cattle traders-Masum, Sujon, Thandu Miah and Tanjirul –were injured by the muggers and two of them-Sujon and Azizul-reportedly went missing.The injured were admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).Quoting the injured traders, DMCH sources said, they had bought 16 cattle from Jhenidah and were heading towards Merul Badda of the city for selling those on Friday night.When the truck reached Manik Mia Avenue at about 12:30 am, a gang of miscreants on a pickup van waylaid them.Later the bandits forced Masum, Sujon, Thandu Miah and Tanjirul to get down from the cattle carrying truck and picked up them into another truck after beating them severely.The thugs then allegedly got away with the cattle-laden truck along with Sujon and Azizul.Later, police rescued the four cattle traders with injuries from Ashulia check post and sent them to Merul Badda cattle market, from where they were taken to DMCH at the initiative of the market authorities.APM Khalikuzzaman, provisionary sub-inspector (PSI) of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station, said, “We’ve heard of such an incident to have happened, but in Hatirjheel area, not in Manik Mia Avenue area.”Police are looking into the matter, he added.
