Police recovered a laptop stolen from a German tourist five days after the theft, from “Nur Cloth Store” in the Nichabazar area of Natore town at around 9:30pm on Sunday.
Police detained Antor, an employee of the cloth store, on suspicion of involvement in the incident, although the stolen camera could not be recovered yet. Shahadat Hossain, sub-inspector of Natore Sadar Police Station who led the drive, confirmed the matter.
According to police and details of the incident, German tourist Kirill Lander-Weber Deneygar arrived at Natore Railway Station from Bogura on the Lalmoni Express train at around 3pm on Wednesday. A young man wearing a vest was with him at the time.
The tourist left his bag containing his belongings with the young man in the station’s VIP waiting room to withdraw money from a booth. Upon returning, he no longer found the young man in the waiting room and, after searching his bag, discovered that his laptop and camera had been stolen.
German tourist Krill subsequently lodged a complaint detailing the incident at Natore Sadar Police Station.
After receiving the complaint, police launched an operation to recover the belongings by analysing CCTV footage and utilising technology, eventually recovering the laptop from a shop in Nichabazar five days after the incident.
Natore Sadar Police Station said detained Antor is being interrogated and the operation to recover the stolen camera is ongoing.
