The police arrested two persons along with firearms while they were allegedly trying to snatch money from a trader at village Kalikapur of Sujanagar in Pabna on Saturday.
The arrestees were Liton Sardar, 20, and Sheikh Shahin, 22, of the village Kalikapur.
The Sujanagar police station officer-in-charge, Ahsanul Haque, said that the accused muggers halted Ashok Kumar, a trader of the upazila, at Kalikapur at noon when he was going to Dhaka with Tk 30 thousand.
Hearing screams, locals rushed to the spot. Being informed, a mobile team of the Sujanagar police station chased the criminals and held Liton and Shahin with firearms and recovered the looted money from them.
The arrestees were kept in the police custody.
