11 held for confining 4 tourists in Cox’s Bazar

Police claimed to have arrested eleven extortion gang members and rescued two children and youths from their captivity at a cottage at Kolatali in Cox’s Bazar Sunday night.

The children are from Dakshin Dikkul of Cox’s Bazar and youths from Shahpari Dwip and Satkania of Teknaf.

The arrestees are Md Alamgir, Md Salim, Akash Das, Md Jobair, Md Mamun, Nazir Hossain, Sekander Ali, Md Sohail, Md Jahangir Alam, Md Jasim and Md Parvez.

A team of Tourist Police raided Sheuli Cottage at night and rescued four people from captivity, Rezaul Karim, additional superintendent of Tourist Police, said.

However, the gang members managed to flee through a secret route. Later, they were arrested in separate drives.

“Two of the rescued people came to Kolatoli with patients and went to Sheuli Cottage to spend the night as some of the gang members offered them rooms at low rates,” Rezaul said.

“But they later asked the tourists for higher room prices. The gang members locked the rooms from outside as the tourists refused to pay the extra price.”