[Bangla Daily Star] A mob beat three carjackers to death and critically injured another at Keraniganj as the criminals attempted to snatch an auto-rickshaw Thursday night. The deceased were identified as Akhter Hossain, 45, Shah Alam, 32, and Selim, 48. The criminal injured in the incident was Akash, 27, son of Mofiz Khan of Wapda Lane.
Police said the gang hired the auto-rickshaw from Kadamtoli intersection for Stand Bazar in South Keraniganj around 9:30pm.
On the way, at Mirzapur the snatchers throttled the driver with a piece of cloth and compelled him to stop, said police. They then pushed him out of the vehicle at knifepoint, police added. Around 200 people of the densely populated area thronged the spot hearing driver Faruqe's scream and intercepted the running snatched auto-rickshaw.
Locals said the vehicle fell into a roadside ditch as they tried to stop it. The mob dragged all four snatchers out of the auto-rickshaw and gave them a good beating leaving them critically injured, police said.
On information police went to the spot and took the injured to Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 11:30pm. Three of the gang members succumbed to their injuries around 1:30am yesterday. Diver Faruqe and snatcher Akash were released from the hospital after primary treatment, said police. Akash was taken in police custody, they added.
Mohammad Arif, owner of the auto-rickshaw, filed a case with the South Keraniganj Police Station in this regard.
Earlier on April 22, two other auto-rickshaw snatchers were killed in a mob beating at Jajira village in the same area. |