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Robbers loot valuables worth Tk 8 lakh from city house

Staff Correspondent
Robbers looted valuables including gold and diamond ornaments worth Tk 7.80 lakh at gunpoint from a house in Pallabi in city's Mirpur area early yesterday.
A gang of eight to 10 robbers broke into the first storey apartment of the three-storey building near Abbas Uddin School on Pallabi's Avenue 5 at around 3:00 am.
They were armed with two firearms, knives and machetes.
Household members said the robbers wearing black masks tied up the three maids and the female occupants of the house at gunpoint. "They knocked at my room at around 3:3 0am," Rokioul Hasan, the only male member of the family present in the house at the time, told The Daily Star.
He suspects that the robbers climbed over the boundary wall of the building to get to the first floor balcony.
"As soon as 1 opened the door, two of the robbers pointed pistols at my head and one held a knife at my throat. Then they tied up my hands behind my back" he said.
He quoted one of the robbers telling nim, "Do not shout. If you shout, you will all be finished off.”
The robbers after tying up all eight members of the household, including Rokibul's US expatriate sister and niece visiting them, asked them for the keys to all the wardrobes in the house.
They then looted the valuables including gold ornaments, a diamond ring, a diamond necklace, USS 450 in cash, four cameras and six mobile phone sets, from the wardrobes.
The robbers then fled after cutting open the collapsible gate of the building.
Rokibul suspects that some neighbours might be involved in the incident as the robbers had inside information about his expatriate sister visiting them, and also that his brother was not home that night.
His elder brother, who had left for India earlier that day, returned home from the Benapole border when he was informed of the robbery.
Pall^bi police said yesterday afternoon that they are yet to arrest anyone in this connection.
About a month ago, a similar robbery occurred in the area but police could not make any breakthrough in that incident either.