A young man slips between vehicles stuck in traffic at night and snatches a phone through an open car window with astonishing swiftness at the capital’s Asad Gate.

A woman dies after falling off a rickshaw while she was being mugged in Dhaka’s Mugda area.

A Chhatra League man and a former leader of the student body have confessed to snatching Tk 37 lakh from two gold traders in the capital's Sutrapur nine days ago, according to court sources.

An alleged operative of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and two suspected hijackers have been killed in separate "gunfights" with law enforcers in Gaibandha and Dhaka.

As mobile phone snatching has become one of the most common crimes in the city, you never know when you will become the next victim. After questioning several snatching victims and the police, The Daily Star brings to you the best possible tips to avoid ‘mobile snatching’.

Muggers allegedly shot a restaurant worker to death in Dhaka’s Motijheel area.

Muggers stabbed a youth to death in Kuril Bishwa Road area of Dhaka.

You can’t believe how fast they snatch; you’re the prey in a flash! You won’t believe how sharp their eyes are, like an eagle, eager to strike.

Miscreants shoot a small businessman and snatched away Tk 5 lakh from him near a bank in Dhaka’s Shyampur area.

Muggers shoot a teacher of Sher-e-Bangla Agriculture University and take away Tk 7.80 lakh from him in a broad daylight in Mohammadpur of Dhaka.

Every mobile phone owner, more or less, experiences the onset of panic and despair the moment he realises his phone is missing. But what happened to me is more than that when I suddenly saw my mobile phone gone in the blink of an eye.