Ansar camp looting suspect Rohingya killed in ‘gunfight’

NEWAGE
Muktadir Rashid | Published: 00:21, Feb 23,2019

A Rohingya youth accused of robbery at Ansar Battalion camp and murder of its commander was killed in a reported ‘gunfight’ with the Rapid Action Battalion at Teknaf in Cox’s Bazar Friday morning.

The deceased, Nurul Alam, 35, was arrested in February 2017 in the case filed for looting arms from the Ansar camp near Nayapara Rohingya camp on May 13, 2016. He was later released on bail in December 2017 while the trial of the case was still pending with the Cox’s Bazar Sessions Judge’s Court.

Top ARSA Commander Killed in ‘Gunfight’ in Cox’s Bazar.

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Nurul Alam after his arrest by RAB in Kutapalong, Cox’s Bazar on March 1, 2017. / RAB

22 February 2019

By MUKTADIR RASHID 

DHAKA—A senior military commander of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA), also known by its former name Harakah al-Yaqeen, was killed on Friday morning in what is being called a “gunfight” with the Bangladesh police’s specialized unit, Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), in the Teknaf sub-district of the Cox’s Bazar.

ARSA has not yet made any statement on the death of their commander and top arms collector, Nurul Alam.