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A road for muggers

Small traders find Rayer Bazaar-Waizghat embankment road risky

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The embankment road between Rayer Bazaar and Waizghat has become a muggers' paradise and fish traders are their catch.
Scores of fish traders who buy fish in Waizghat and sell at different kitchen markets can no longer use this road safely these days.
Hardly a day could pass by without a trader being mugged. Most of the victims are very poor and not willing to report these incidents to police, The Daily Star found in an investigation.
"Reporting to the police would not only be a waste of time but also invite hassle for us," observed one of the three traders who were robbed of whatever they had on the early morning of Thursday.
Mohammad Shaheed, a fish trader, had to fork out Tk 3,000 when three muggers waylaid his rickshaw at knifepoint at around 6:00am at the intersection of Hazaribagh Road and the embankment road. Within half an hour, fish traders Nirmal and Khadem Ali lost Tk 4,000 and Tk 4,500 at the same spot.
Shaheed had borrowed the money at a high interest just a day before he lost it. Now, he does not SEE PAGE 11 COL 3 FROM PAGE 1
know what to do.
According to traders, the muggings are taking place within an area of about one kilometre separated by Hazaribagh and Lalbagh police stations.
The muggers appear from Hazaribagh area or Kamrangirchar and wait by the road to pounce on innocent traders who make a living out of hard work, Khadem Ali said.
"I have been using this road for a long time. Almost everyday, for the last three months, I have been hearing about such incidents. Occasionally, I see a police car patrol the area, but they do not do anything to stop it," he said.
Samir, an assistant subinspector (ASI) at the Hazaribagh Police Station and also the duty officer on Thursday, told The Daily Star that the area under their jurisdiction on that day stretched between the Sikdar Medical and Kalunagar (first Kamrangirchar bridge).
"We however heard of some mugging incidents and deployed some patrol there," the ASI said. "Most of the muggings are taking place in Lalbagh area, not in the Hazaribagh Police Station area."
Duty officer of Lalbagh Police Station ASI Shahadat advised this correspondent to talk to the officer in charge (OC). "If the OC wants, everything would be solved, " Shahadat said. "We have however three patrol cars in the area. It is very unfortunate that muggers are still active there."