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Four Daily Star journos mugged in capital

Staff Correspondent
Four journalists of The Daily Star were mugged early yesterday in the capital's Bangla Motor by four unidentified armed miscreants.
The victims were returning from the Durga Puja mandap at Ramna Kali Mandir by two rickshaws when four people stopped them in front of the alley of Biswa Sahitya Kendra near Bangla Motor intersection around 1:45pm.
Brandishing their weapons, the miscreants forced the rickshaws into the alley from the main road and took away all their valuables.
Among the four muggers aged between 25 and 30, one was carrying a machete and another a small gun. At least one was clad in a shirt and trousers, and the others in polo shirts and trousers.
The left eye of one of the muggers appeared to be unusually smaller.
After the snatching, the miscreants crossed the street and left in a white private car with tinted glass. About two minutes later, patrol police, informed by a passing private television vehicle, arrived at the scene. By then, the muggers had vanished.
A general diary (GD) was filed with Shahbagh Police Station in this connection.
The handbag of one of the journalists was recovered by Ramna police later in the morning from in front of Karnaphuli Garden City in the capital. Press and debit cards of two of the journalists were found inside the bag along with other documents.
Abdul Goni, security guard at the Dutch Bangla Bank ATM booth on the Biswa Sahitya Kendra alley, heard the commotion and came out. He told The Daily Star that during his five years at the booth, he often saw similar muggings in that area. "After mugging, they usually drive away in a red car, sometimes in a black one."
Locals complained that the stretch of the road from Paribagh's pedestrian bridge to Bangla Motor intersection was infamous for mugging by several gangs including one of hermaphrodites.
They said patrol police usually parked their car near the mytv office, while the muggers committed the crime rampantly in the alleys in the area.
On September 7, Gonojagoron Mancha activist Arif Noor was injured badly near Paribagh pedestrian bridge by unidentified miscreants who left in a private car.
On April 25, another journalist of The Daily Star was assaulted and mugged near the Paribagh mosque around 1:30am. Two people in a white corolla stopped him and took away all his valuables at knifepoint while he was walking home alone.