Hundreds of jewellery shop owners brought a procession and kept their shops closed on Monday protesting the robbery at a jewellery shop on Sunday in Mymensingh town.
They demanded immediate arrest of the robbers and recovery of the looted gold of M Hossain Jewellers.
During the demonstration, protestors threw bricks aiming at police when the procession was stopped at Ganginarpar intersection.
Chandan Kumar Ghosh, secretary of Bangladesh Jewellers Samity of Mymensingh unit, said three robbery incidents took place in Mymensingh since February this year but no looted gold was recovered.
But this time they want back the looted gold, otherwise they would go for tougher programme, he added.
A gang of robbers exploded 20 to 25 crude bombs before storming into M Hossain and Brothers Jewellers owned by Kabir Hossain on Sunday evening.
The gang looted gold ornaments and cash worth about TK20m, claimed Abdul Quiyyum, the son of the proprietor of the shop. Four people— Kabir, proprietor of M Hossain and Brothers Jewellers, while three employees Gadashwar Karmaker, Abu Taleb, and Russell were injured in the incident.
The injured were admitted at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital.
In last month on September 3, robbers looted gold ornaments worth TK1.5m from the volt of Labonya Shilpalaya at Durgabari. Another robbery took place at Alim Jewellers in the same town from where robbers looted gold worth Tk2om on February 11 this year.
