The New Nation - Internet Edition

UNB, Savar

Two alleged muggers were killed and two others injured in a mob beating when they were fleeing after snatching Tk 80,000 and injuring three people at a kitchen market at Birulia here early yesterday.

Police said four muggers snatched Tk 80,000 from a businessman at the local kitchen market at Birulia and tried to flee the scene by a microbus at about 5 am. Hearing shouts of the businessman, the devotees, who were coming out from a nearby mosque after Fazr prayers, chased the muggers.

Being chased, the muggers attacked the local devotees with sharp weapons leaving three of them injured.

Later, the devotees along with other people caught the four snatchers and gave them a good beating, leaving two of them dead on the spot.