Home Minister visits Bandarban today

Four cases filed over Bandarban bank robbery

FE Team | Published: April 05, 2024 23:47:20

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal will visit Bandarban today to inspect the overall situation there as law enforcers on Thursday rescued Sonali Bank's manager Nizam Uddin within 48 hours after abduction, reports BSS.
Talking to BSS, senior information officer of the home ministry Sharif Mahmud Apu said that the minister would go to Bandarban by a helicopter in the morning.
He said the home minister would visit Ruma and Bandarban and talk with high-ups of the law enforcement agencies and inspect the overall situation.
Besides, the government successfully rescued bank manager in a safe condition without taking any risk, Director of the Legal and Media Wing of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Commander Khandaker Al Moin confirmed the matter this afternoon.
With sincere efforts by the RAB, Bangladesh army and police the bank manager was rescued but looted weapons and ammunition could not be recovered.
Nizam Uddin, the manager of Sonali Bank's Ruma branch in Bandarban was rescued around 7.15 pm and he was taken to the local RAB camp in Bandarban, the RAB official said.
A total of four cases have been filed in Ruma, and Thanchi upazilas of Bandarban over the bank robbery and the abduction of a bank official in the district.
Three cases were lodged with Ruma upazila where another with Thanchi police station in this regard.