Suspected robber beaten to death in Sitakunda

Chattogram, Jan 18 – A suspected robber was killed in a lynch-mob-attack in Barabkunda in Sitakunda upazila of Chatogram district early Monday.The identity of the deceased, aged about 63, could not be known immediately.
Local people said the robbery incidents have increased in the upazila recently as 13 cases of robbery have been filed in local police stations in the last one month.
Citing frequent robbery incidents, the local people have taken an initiative to prevent occurrence of robbery and that’s why they have started to guard themselves at night.
Quoting local people, Sumon Banik, officer-in-charge of Sitakunda Police Station, said a gang of robbers, numbering 12-13 entered into the village early in this Monday morning.
Sensing the presence of the robber gangs, local people chased them and at one stage, they managed to catch one person from the gang.
Later, they gave him a good thrashing, leaving him critically injured.
On information, police went to the spot and took the victim to a local hospital where the doctors declared him dead. – UNB