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Robbers allegedly looted belongings of three families living at tin-shed houses in the Chand Udyan area in the capital’s Mohammadpur in the early hours of Thursday.

A group of miscreants entered the houses and looted the belongings, including a refrigerator, a gas cylinder, a gas stove and a cupboard threatening inmates with locally made sharp weapons and took away the belongings, according to a victim family and witnesses.


Mohammad Rashed, a sewing operator, said that the miscreants by using ladder vandalised CCTV cameras at about 3:35pm and looted almost everything.

‘We were confined in a room and the robbers looted our belongings,’ Mohammad Rashed told ¶¶Òõ¾«Æ·.

Mohammadpur police station inspector for investigation Hafizur Rahman said that the belongings of the poor people were taken away over a land dispute between two groups.

‘A complaint was filed with the Mohammadpur police station in this regard,’ the inspector added.

Incidents of robberies, mugging, gunfights and killings took place in the Mohammadpur area after the fall of Sheikh Hasina regime on August 5 amid a student-led mass uprising.