AT LEAST seven persons, including a newly married couple, were injured in an attack by armed robbers at Bairagirchala under Sripur upazila in Gazipur early Friday.
   The bandits looted 30 tolas of gold ornaments, foreign currency equivalent to taka one lakh, four charger lights and four cell phone sets.
   Family members said Alam, who recently returned from Saudi Arabia, got married on Thursday.
   At about 1:00am Friday, a group of armed robbers entered the room where the couple was staying and looted the valuables at gunpoint. As the couple cried for help, residents came in their aid, prompting the robbers to open gunshots.
   Of the injured, one Rashidul Islam was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital with bullet wounds. The others received treatment in clinics in Dhaka.
   A team of the police visited the spot.

THREE indigenous children of the same family died of unknown reasons at village Sheikhpura under Gomastapur upazila in Chapainawabganj early Saturday.
   They are Shree Milon, 9, Shreemoti Miloni, 6, and Shreemoti Siloni, 3, son and daughters of Hori Lal.
   According to family members, they went to sleep at night after their dinner with ‘puishak’ (spinach).
   They felt pain in the throat and stomach and Milon died at about 3:00am, Miloni at about 4:30am and Siloni at about 6:00am.
   The Chapainawabganj police super, Mokhlesur Rahman, Gomastapur upazila nirbahi officer, Mofazzal Hossain, Gomastapur Upazila Health Complex medical
   officer Shahidul Alam and
   officer-in-charge of the Gomastapur police station Fateh Mohammad Ittefaqul Alam visited the spot.
   Shahidul Alam said that nothing could be said without examination.
   The bodies were handed over to the family members on Sunday after conducting post-mortem examinations in the Chapainawabganj General Hospital morgue.