Three suspected robbers have died in a gunfight with the police after a robbery gang strangled a night guard who stopped them from looting a shop in Feni.
The gang suffocated Abdul Mannan alias Monu, 45, to death with a towel in Becker Bazar in Daganbhuiya upazila of Feni on Thursday, reports bdnews24.com.
Police arrested a member of the robbery gang and recovered weapons, said Aslam Sikdar, chief of Daganbhuiya Police Station.
Mannan, son of Nur Nabi, hailed from Ashrafpur village. The robbers who died in the gunfight could not be immediately identified.
The robbery gang was loading a truck with looted goods from Shariat and Brothers, a grocery store in Becker Bazar early on Thursday, police said citing the locals.
Night guard Mannan chased them and screamed for help. The robbers then nabbed him and strangled to death.
Rafiq, the other night guard in the market, sought help from local people by using a mosque loudspeaker.
Police patrolling the area arrived at the scene and detained two robbers, while other gang members opened fire on the law-enforcement agency.
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