Farmer confronts neighbour’s son during home burglary

Nazir Khan

A 53-year-old rice farmer in Black Bush Polder says he was awakened by a noise in his living room around midnight on Tuesday and found his neighbour’s son inside. Nazir Khan said he had set aside $150,000 for fertiliser and other farming supplies when he noticed the intruder.

“There’s light inside the house, so I recognise him very clearly..When we call him and ask what he doing, he run out. He already open the door, so he run straight through the door and gone…we had a bag outside (living room) with money $150,000 was missing. And the person ran out. So we don’t know how much other person went with him in the house. But that is all we can see. And then he ran outside in the light and i peep through the window and see him again, when he was passing under the light,” Khan recounted.

He said the suspect entered through a window that was pushed shut but not locked.
“The window we usually push it in, it get a lock but we dont really turn the lock, we live here 40 to 50 years, and we never have a theif like that,” he added.

Khan reported the incident to police shortly after midnight but said officers had not visited the scene.
“Me make a report to the station last night, and no police come till now, i just went back to the station and there’s only one police there, and no police still aint come,” he said.

Though no weapon was seen, Khan said the situation could have been more serious.
“Well we looking for the police to come and do their duty what them suppose to do, and he have to face the penalty for that because its not easy if he came and kill somebody now in the house,” he added.
The incident has left Khan and his family shaken, with the stolen money critical for his upcoming agricultural operations.