In a bizarre mugging incident, a mugger ate up a gold earring as he was caught red-handed by mob during his attempt to flee after whisking away the ornament from a teenage girl in the capital’s Gulistan last evening.
The 28-year-old mugger was identified as Amir Hossain who was admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital while the 15-year-old Munni and her mother Anwara Begum, an employee of the capital’s Shuhrawardi Medical College and Hospital, had been waiting at the infirmary for recovery of the gold ring.
Anwara said the mugger whisked off the earring from one of the ears of her daughter, Munni, while they were crossing the road in Gulistan around 6pm.
“As my daughter cried out, pedestrians caught the mugger red-handed while he was trying to escape,” she said, adding that when the mugger could understand he would not be able to escape, he ate up the gold ring.
Assistant Sub-Inspector Iqbal Monir of Sergeant Ahad police outpost in Gulistan said the mugger admitted that he had eaten up the ring as the pedestrians gave him a sound beating.
“We rescued the mugger at a critical condition and took him to DMCH for treatment,” said ASI Monir.
He added that the mugger, who was mainly an addict, resided in the vicinity near the Golap Shah Majar.
Anwara Begum said they came to DMCH by hiring a rickshaw following the policemen, who took the mugger to the hospital.
“I purchased a pair of rings for my daughter with my income and we want the gold ring back,” she said, but failed to say how.
Meanwhile, a gang of criminals took away Tk65,000 by stabbing a fruit trader at Dholaipar in Jatrabari in the morning yesterday while he was on his way to Jatrabari intersection for purchasing fruits.
Identified as Sabuj Hossain, 27, the trader said four-five criminals intercepted him on his way and stabbed him as he was trying to resist their attempt to take away his money.
Abani Shankar Kar, officer-in-charge of Jatrabari police station, said the injured trader was taken to DMCH by the pedestrians and police were trying to nab the muggers.