Six members of a family were injured when a gang, fleeing after committing robbery, fired on them at Shah Mirpur in the Chittagong city early Thursday.
The Karnaphuli police said that the gang made off with goods worth about Tk 15 lakh.
The police and local people said that a group of 20-25 men entered the two-storey residence of expatriate Abul Kashem by cutting the window grilles at about 2:30am.
Holding the family at gunpoint they took away valuables, including Tk 5 lakh in cash and about 30 tolas of gold ornaments.
Karnaphuli police officer-in-charge Aslam Hossain said that the women of the family captured one of the burglars and held him down despite his gang fired on them to free him.
'The gang had to leave without him. The neighbours after giving him a serious beating handed him over to the police,' Aslam Hossain said.
The injured, three of whom were women, received treatment at hospital, he added.
The victim family informed that Abul Kashem and his 10 brothers were working in different countries in the Middle East, adding that five of them were in the country during the robbery.
Source : New Age
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