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Transport Strike

Heyday for robbers on bus

Staff Correspondent
Taking advantage of the 24-hour transport strike, a gang took commuters on a bus from different points in the capital and robbed them on Thursday night.
Jahid, a private service holder, was one of the victims.
He was waiting for a bus home along with many others on the Airport Road at Khilkhet around 11:00pm with no public transport in sight, thanks to the strike.
"Around 11:30pm, a bus came and stopped for us. We all breathed a sigh of relief as our long wait finally ended," Jahid said, narrating the story to The Daily Star.
He and his fellow passengers could hardly sense
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that their sigh of relief would soon turn into a pang of regret.
"Soon after we left the stop, the driver turned off the lights and around 20 people got up from their seats, pulling guns and sharp weapons on us," a visibly shaken Jahid described.
"The conductor of the bus himself took me at gunpoint, tied me and forced me to give up my ATM card. The driver too seemed to be a part of the gang, judging from the way he was talking to
the robbers."
They also forced him to give away the PIN of his ATM card.
Later, the concerned bank officials revealed to Jahid thatTk 4,000 had been withdrawn from an ATM booth in Karwan Bazar using the card between 12:00am to 12:30am that night.
From the other passengers, the robbers took away 15 cell phones and aboutTk 20,000 in cash.
They also blindfolded the passengers while
the bus roamed the Dhaka streets for over an hour before dropping all off at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar around 12:30am.
None, however, was hurt except a government official who was assaulted while trying to dissuade the robbers by showing his identity card, Jahid added.
The officer-in-charge of Airport Police Station, however, told The Daily Star that no such incident was reported to them.