Police on Thursday evening arrested two persons in connection with the jewelry robbery at Nehar Market in Zindabazar area of Sylhet city on Wednesday evening.
The arrestees were Kabir Ahmed alias Heroin Kabir, 35, and Abdul Jalil alias Fokra Jalil, 33.
Earlier, Sylhet business community Thursday observed a day-long strike demanding immediate arrest of the robbers who killed a security guard and looted gold from three jewellery shops worth millions of taka.
Owners of different business establishments kept their shutters down while they gave an ultimatum to police to arrest the robbers and to recover the stolen jewellery within 24 hours.
The businessmen and the locals of the area claimed that local police and officers of power boards were also responsible for the robbery as law enforcers reached the spot at least an hour later after the incident took place.
District Jewelry Samity called the strike, while the entire business community of the city joined the strike to protest the occurrence.
The vehicular movement in the area came to a halt as strikers blocked the major thoroughfares of the area for hours and vandalised a number of cars in the area.
Babul Ahmed, general secretary of Sylhet District Jewelry Samity, said if the government and the administration could not fulfil their demand on time, they will come with tougher programmes to press their demand.
No police members were seen active at the spot to control the situation during the strike.
Eyewitnesses said a gang of 8-10 robbers who blasted handmade bombs, gunned down a security guard and looted Al Baraka Jewelers, Komola Bhandar and Poroma Jewelers’s jewelleries worth millions of taka in the evening of Wednesday.
Ezaz Ahmed, deputy commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan Police, said no case was filed in this connection.
But the law enforcer’s team had been trying to arrest the robbers, he added.