Five killed in ‘gunfights’

NEWAGE
Staff Correspondent |
Published:May 06,2019

Five people were killed in two gunfights on Monday, three in the Sunderbans and two Rohingyas in Cox’s Bazar.

Three suspected forest-area robbers were killed in a gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion members at Kodailya canal under Chandpai Range of the Sunderbans under Mongla upazila in Bagerhat while two suspected Rohingya drug peddlers were killed in a gunfight with police in Jadimara Rohingya camp area under Teknaf upazila in Cox’s Bazar, RAB and police officials said.

The deceased in the Sunderbans were Panna Sheikh alias Rana, 28, from Gabgachhiya, Md Julhash Sheikh, 39, from Balaibunia, Md Kamruzzaman, 39, from Balaibunia under Morrelganj upazila in Bagerhat, according to RAB. 

Of them, Rana was the ring leader of the gang named after him and Julhash and Kamruzzaman were his associates, RAB added.

In Cox’s Bazar, deceased Mohammad Alam was from Noyapara Rohingya camp and Mohammad Rafiq from Jadimara Rohingya camp, police said.

According to a press release from the RAB-6 battalion in Khulna, a team from the battalion on a tip-off went to Kodailya canal and signalled a boat there to halt but the suspected robbers in the boat opened fire on the RAB personnel who also returned the fire.

As the gunfight ended, the release said, the RAB personnel searched the boat and found the three in a critical condition whom they took to Mongla Upazila Health Complex where doctors declared them dead.

They seized one shutter gun, one pipe gun, 23 bullets, three machetes and the boat the robbers were in, the release added. 

Teknaf police station officer-in-charge Pradip Kumar Das said that a team of police, also on receiving secret information, conducted a raid in Jadimara camp area where the suspected drug peddlers opened fire on them, compelling them to fire back. The two suspected drug vendors were killed in the gunfight on the spot.

Police seized two pistols, seven bullets and 2,200 Yaba tablets from the spot, he said.

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