In Tangail, a group of armed men disguised as passengers boarded a bus headed for Chattogram, stole people’s money and possessions, and raped a woman while holding her at gunpoint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The terrifying occurrence happened early on Wednesday in Tangail’s Madhupur upazila’s Raktipara area, which is off the Dhaka-Tangail Highway.<\/p>\n\n\nRead more: Gang-rape, robbery on moving bus in Tangail<\/span><\/a>\n\n\n The bus of “Eagle Paribahan,” with 24-25 passengers on board, was on its way to Chattogram from Kushtia late on Tuesday night when the crime occurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A group of robbers boarded the bus around 11pm on Tuesday after it resumed its journey following a stopover at a hotel in Sirajganj district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And some 5-10 minutes later, four more got into the bus, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Around 12am on Wednesday when the bus took the busy Dhaka-Tangail Highway in the Natiapara area, the robbers whiffed out guns, hijacked the vehicle and forced the driver to drive towards Madhupur upazila,” the SP said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On a desolate stretch, the armed gang robbed the commuters of cash, jewellery and mobile phones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The robbers then blindfolded the passengers and raped the woman commuter on board,” the SP said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The ordeal continued for over three hours till the seven criminals forced them to get off the bus and drove the heavy vehicle towards Raktipara’s Jam-e-Mosque, where they abandoned it and fled with the loot, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “The victim woman is being treated at Tangail General Hospital, and her initial medical test showed evidence of rape,” the police official added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Tangail, a group of armed men disguised as passengers boarded a bus headed for Chattogram, stole people’s money and possessions, and raped a woman while holding her at gunpoint. The terrifying occurrence happened early on Wednesday in Tangail’s Madhupur upazila’s Raktipara area, which is off the Dhaka-Tangail Highway. The bus of “Eagle Paribahan,” with … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[14826,13155,14825,5269],"yoast_head":"\n