Dhaka, May 21 (IANS). Another incident came to light on Dhaka-Tangail-Jamuna Bridge Highway amid increasing increase in robbery incidents on roads in Bangladesh, when a group of robbers hijacked a passenger bus and looted all the goods of the passengers. During this time, women were also molested. According to local media, the robbery took place between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, when 8-10 robbers were disguised by passengers the bus based on knives, knives and other household weapons. The bus departed for Rangpur for Rangpur at about 20:00 for 45 passengers from Abdullapur in Dhaka. 10 Women’s passengers were also on board this bus. According to the report of the leading Bangladesh -Dainik Prothom Alo, bus assistant Atikur Rahman said some other passengers were on the bus and after walking a few kilometers, the robbers controlled the bus. Women’s passengers were also molested during the robbery. One of the passengers, Jewel Mia, confirmed the incident of molestation, said her blindfold was tied, but she heard the women’s passengers cry and plead. The robbers searched for women passengers to rip money. According to reports, the robbers have all, including passengers and bus drivers, blindfolded. During the trip, he searched every passenger and looted mobile, cash, gold and other valuable articles. Then he turned the bus between the area and tangel several times. The robbers escaped on Wednesday morning to leave the bus in the Shibpur area of Bypass Road in Tangel City. The passengers later reported the incident to the Tangel Sadar police station. Tanbir Ahmed, officer in charge of the Tangel Sadar police station, said the process of registering the case was underway and that the police began to identify the work of the gang of robbers. Last month, there were incidents of bus robbery in broad daylight on the Dhaka Aricha highway in Bangladesh, when unidentified persons kidnapped two moving buses and looted gold jewelry of passengers in a knife point in half an hour. In another incident in April, the robbers looted cash, cell phones and gold jewelry of passengers in a bus in a broad daylight on the same highway. It is reported that the robbers forced the passengers to hand over their valuable articles at the knife point before fleeing. According to Bangladesh’s headquarters, such robbery has increased since the collapse of the Awami League government in August 2024. In February 2025, 74 cases of robbery were reported, compared to 71 in January. According to the report of Protom Alo, on February 27 and March 1, two separate robberies in Chauderagram in the Komila district Bangladesh, in which a Malaysian migrants and a Kuwaiti were targeted. According to the report, these crimes are not limited to the night, but in the light of the robbers, passenger buses stop by stopping the road from the roads that fall on the street. Several organizations claim that the increase in dacoits is due to the lack of action and loose patrol of law enforcement agencies. According to reports, there have been several robberies over the country over the past few weeks, including business people, migrants and even ordinary people, which has caused a large scale panic. -Ians Aks/ABM
Robbers molested female passengers in a bus on Dhaka Highway.
