Dhaka, June 12 -- A mugger chase in Dhaka's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar has left a police sub-inspector and a constable injured, with two suspects detained.

The injured are Sub-Inspector Samsuzzoha Sarkar of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station and Constable Md Hridoy Hossain attached to the Public Order Management (POM) unit.

Both suffered stab wounds to their left shoulders.

Assistant Sub-Inspector Abdul Momin said three muggers were fleeing in a battery-run rickshaw past the glass bridge near Zia Udyan around 1am on Friday when the two police personnel, on motorcycle patrol, gave chase.

"Hearing people shouting, the two chased the rickshaw on their bike," officer Momin said. "At one point the suspects knifed them -- but they still managed to...