Bus passengers robbed in Comilla

Armed robbers looted valuables worth several hundred thousand taka from the passengers of a bus on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway at Daudkandi Upazila in Comilla on Wednesday night. Police and passengers said a gang of robbers swooped on the passengers of a Laxmipur-bound ‘Jonaki Paribahan’ bus from Dhaka at Putia under Gozaria Upazila in Munshiganj district around 10:00pm. The gangsters snatched away valuables, including cash, from the passengers taking them hostage at gunpoint in the moving bus. When the bus reached Putia of Daudkandi, the robbers forced the passengers to get down. The bandits then drove away the bus to Siddhirganj of Narayanganj and made their way leaving the bus there. Officer-in-charge of Daudkandi Police Station Abu Salam Mia confirmed the incident, according to bdnews24.com.