Burglars have stolen Tk 13 million in cash from a garment factory, owned by a Korean company, at the Chittagong Export Processing Zone today. Officer-in-charge of CEPZ police station Abul Kalam said a case has been filed with the police in this connection. The authority of the HKD Ltd, a Korea-based garment industry, has lodged the complaint, he added. Kalam said the burglars have stolen Tk 13 million (1.30 crore) from the vault of the factory by breaking open the grille of the factory on the 3rd floor of the building. The factory is located at Road No. 5 of Sector 8 in the CEPZ, the biggest and oldest export processing zone of the country. The authority said the money was withdrawn from the bank to pay wages to the factory workers.
