Tk 6m looted from Gazipur Janata Bank branch

In a daring heist, burglars looted Tk 6 million from the Gazipur corporate branch of state-owned Janata Bank in Joydevpur Bazar early Sunday. Police arrested security guard of the bank Nurul Islam, 50, following the incident. Officer-in-charge of Joydevpur Police Station Syed Abul Hasem said Zakir, a cloth trader of Tanvir Plaza in Joydevepur Bazar, entered the bank, housed on the 2nd floor of the same market, tactfully with some fruits around 10pm on Saturday. When the security guard fell unconscious after eating the fruits, Zakir and his associates broke open the vault and looted the money. They fled the scene breaking a window grill. Earlier on January 25, burglars had tunneled into the vault of Sonali Bank’s main branch in Kishoreganj district town and looted about Tk 164 million. Barely in 1-and-half-month of similar incident in Kishoreganj, burglars in a filmy style looted Tk 3.25m from another branch of Sonali Bank in Bogra after digging a tunnel into its vault on March 8, according to a news agency.