Dhaka – Robbers looted about 200 tolas of gold ornaments from a jewellery shop in the Faridpur district town on Wednesday night, UNB news agency reported.Manager of Meghna Jewelers Monoj Karmakar said a group of 5-7 robbers stormed into their shop at Niltuli Swarnakar potti in the town around 8:15pm.
The attackers took the employees of the shop hostage at gunpoint and looted about 200 tolas (about 2.5kg) of gold ornaments.
They managed to flee the scene blasting 6-7 crude bombs, he said.
Faridpur additional police super Qamruzzaman said on information, police rushed in and recovered an unexploded crude bomb from the spot, adding that they started a drive to arrest the criminals.
