Suspected robber lynched
A suspected robber was killed in a lynch-mob attack at Potirajpur village in Ishwardi upazila of Pabna early Saturday, reports UNB.
Bahauddin Faruqi, officer-in-charge of Ishwardi police station, said that a gang of around 10 robbers looted valuables from a house at the village around 1:30am.
When the robbers attempted to enter another house owned by Hafez Tajul Islam at the village, the house inmates started to scream.
Following this, the locals rushed in and chased the robbers and caught one of them.
The angry mob beat him to death on the spot.
On information, police recovered the body, said the OC adding that the deceased could not be identified immediately.
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