Robber lynched in Ctg
Later, police arrested another two in connection with the same incident and recovered 37 rounds of bullets from their possession.
The dead is identified as Abdul Majid, 35, of Satkania.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. According to police and witnesses, a gang of some 12 robbers entered one Vesta Mia's teashop at Napiterpara in Dhemsha at around 3:00am at night and started looting the shop keeping the shopkeepers hostage at gunpoint.
Sensing the presence of the robbers, local people surrounded the shop from all sides.
At one stage they held Abdul Majid and beat him to death on the spot while the rest of the robbers managed to flee.
On information, police conducted massive raid in and around Dhemsha union and arrested another two robbers of the same group at neighbouring Dohazari area.
The arrested ones are Jamal, 22, of Satkania and Kabir, 26, of Chakoria in Cox's Bazar.
Police recovered 19 rounds of Self Loaded Rifle (SLR) bullets, 8 rounds of 303 rifle bullets and 10 bullets of 9mm rifle from their possession.