The arrestees include five fired Army and Air Force personnel, an RAB official saysThe Rapid Action Battalion, or RAB, and the Detective Branch of police have arrested as many as 11 people over the heist in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur where the robbers were clad in Army and RAB uniforms. There are five sacked Army and Air Force personnel among the arrestees, RAB spokesperson Lt Col Md Munim Ferdous said on Sunday. Dhaka Metropolitan Police spokesperson Muhammad Talebur Rahman said the force had also arrested three suspects and recovered Tk 220,000, gold jewellery and two looted iPhones. On Saturday, Mohammadpur Police Station chief Ali Iftekhar Hasan said the attendant of the house had opened the gate as the criminals were wearing army and RAB uniforms along with masks on their faces. “The criminals who were clad in army uniforms had made the appearance in a way that it was not possible to figure out that they were not army officers.

Source: bd News24 October 13, 2024 16:41 UTC