Rab and police on Thursday arrested four people, in separate drives, from several parts of Sylhet for their suspected involvement in a robbery incident in a jewellry market of Zindabazar on the previous day.
The arrestees were Kabir Ahmed alias Heroin Kabir, 35, of Tilagarh Kallayanpur in the city, Abdul Jalil alias Fokra Jalil, 33, Nahid alias Kala Nahid, 30, and Omar Ali, 35, of Pathanpara in Dakkhin Surma upazila.
Acting on secret information, a team of police arrested Kabir from Tilagarh area in the city early Thursday while Jalil was arrested from Pathanpara in the city in the morning the same day.
Besides, Rab conducted separate drives in the city and arrested Nahid from Subid Bazar area and Omar Ali from Dakkhin Surma on Thursday night.
Earlier on Wednesday, Badshah Mia, a night guard was killed and over 15 people were injured in an attack by robbers on Nehar Jewellry Market in Zindabazar area of the city.
The robbers looted valuables from AL-Baraka Jewellers’, ‘Kamala Bhandar Jewellers’ and ‘Poroma Jewellers’, and fled the scene.
The robbers also hurled 20 crude bombs during the incident.
Meanwhile, Zila Babosayee Oikya Kalyan Parishad, a forum of the local businessmen, from a meeting at Shandhya Bazar in the city on Thursday night, threatened to enforce an indefinite strike on Sunday if all the people involved in the robbery were not arrested immediately.
