Two suspected robbers were allegedly lynched to death by an aged mob in the Darikandi-Borochar area of Belabo upazila of Narsingdi on Tuesday night.
The deceased were identified as Jewel Mia, 30, and Nadim Mia, 30, of Lochonpur village in Raipura upazila of the district.
Shafayet Hossain, officer-in-charge of Belabo police station, said the road stretching from Dorikandi bus stand to Borochar on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway has been infamous for robberies.
On Tuesday night, local people spotted a CNG-run auto-rickshaw, carrying some three to four armed men, in the area. Sensing danger, the locals raised an alarm.
Soon a mob gathered and signaled the auto-rickshaw to stop. The occupants of the vehicle panicked, got off the auto-rickshaw and tried to flee. After a brief chase, the locals caught two of them and beat them to death, the OC said.
Later, the mob vandalized the vehicle and set it on fire, the official said.
On information, police recovered the bodies of the two men and sent them to the local hospital morgue for an autopsy.
