Trader hospitalised after being shot, robbed in broad daylight in Mirpur

A money exchange trader has been shot and robbed of cash and foreign currency in broad daylight in Dhaka’s Mirpur.

The incident occurred at 10am on Tuesday in the National Swimming Pool area.

Mizanur Rahman, assistant commissioner of the police’s Mirpur Zone, said that 55-year-old trader Mahmudul Islam has been admitted to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital with a bullet wound on the left side of his waist, but is out of danger.

Mahmudul lives in a house behind the Mirpur Fire Service and Civil Defence Complex, the police official said. He and his brother-in-law left home carrying three bags of cash and foreign currency in the morning.

Mizanur said criminals on a motorcycle ambushed them midway between the Swimming Pool and the Fire Service complex, fired off one shot, and snatched the bags.

Mahmudul told police nearly Tk 2.2 million had been stolen from him.

Asked how many attackers had been on the motorcycle, Mizanur said: “We are trying to collect CCTV camera footage, identify the attackers, and determine how many were on the motorcycle.”

A video of the incident shows two people with weapons, one of whom fires a shot. The trader is seen immediately falling to the ground afterwards.

One of the armed men then got on a motorcycle which already had two other people on it. The other man with the weapon then moved out of the frame.