Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members detained 15 robbers from Banshkhali upazila in Chattogram and Pekua Kutubdia of Cox’s Bazar for abducting 17 fishermen.
During the drives conducted on Friday and Saturday, chief of the robber gang, Nurul Kabir, and its second-in-command, Md. Mamun, were detained.
RAB-7 Commander, Lieutenant Colonel MA Yusuf, said on Saturday evening said that the gang known as Kabir bahini used to physically torture fishermen and extort money from them.
On January 14, the gang kidnapped 17 fishermen and demanded Tk 10 lakh as ransom from the boat owner.
After the owner managed to give them Tk 2 lakh, they snatched 2,000 pieces of hilsa from the fishermen.
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