Staff Reporter :Within days of swindling money from the ATM (Automated Teller Machine) booths of different banks in Dhaka city, an incident of looting cash money from the bank booth took place in Gazipur on Thursday. Miscreants snatched more than Tk. 18 millions from an ATM booth of Dutch-Bangla Bank Ltd (DBBL) adjacent to Apex Footwear factory at Shafipur in Kaliakoir upazila in the early hours. At least three persons, including an armed guard, were injured in the incident. The robbery took place when ATM maintenance and security service provider ‘Money Plant’ was about to reload the booth with cash, said DBBL’s Shafipur Branch Manager Shawkat Ali.The pick-up trucks, which were used by the miscreants during the robbery, later found abounded in Mymensingh. Police said that they recovered the trucks from Asim area of Fulbaria upazila at about 11:00 AM without the looted money. Officer-in-Charge of Fulbaria Police Station Rifat Khan Rajib said that the locals informed the police. Later, police recovered the trucks with an ATM card. Officer-in-Charge of Kaliakoir Police Station Abdul Motaleb Mia said that a gang of 10 to 12 miscreants riding on pick-up trucks swooped on the employees of the Money Plant’ and snatched away two steel cases stuffed with the cash. The employees reached the booth by a microbus around 3:00 am. Two gunmen and security guards were among the employees. When they were unloading the cash from the steel cases, the miscreants attacked them and snatched away the steel cases, said the OC.According to the employees, the robbers beat security guard Liakat Hossain, 40, and snatched away the trunks. Two other injured employees of the company are Ziaur Rahman, 35, and Sheikh Shajahan, 32. The injured employees tried to resist the miscreants. Critically injured Liakat was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital. On information, police visited the spot. The OC said that they were trying to hold the culprits. Masud Rana, executive director of the DBBL, filed a case in this connection with the police station in the morning.
