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3 ‘drug dealers’ killed in Chittagong 'gunfight'
| The RAB police blotter reporters have become more efficient over time, but they still follow the same script. |
[Dhaka Tribune] Three suspected drug peddlers
| ...miscreants only a mother could love, and sometimes nit even them... |
have been killed
in what the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) described as a shootout in Chittagong’s Khulshi area.
| ...previously referred to as an encounter, and before that as a crossfire... |
RAB identified two of the dear departed as Zakir Hossain, 31, and Dalim Sheikh, 29.
| ...respectable two-namers both, but completely lacking in aliases. This suggests a certain lack of seriousness... |
.The shootout took place around 3:30am,
| ...all proper shootouts/crossfires/encounters take place at O dark thirty, when respectable citizens are fast asleep... |
on Thursday, at Khulshi rail crossing,
| ...a suitably plebian location... |
said RAB 7 Senior Assistant Director (Media) Mimtanur Rahman.
| Whoa! The RAB now has enough staff to allow for specialization! |
He said they were tipped off
| *Ring, ring* “Mahmoud the Weasel, here. Look out for a black Skoda stuffed full of miscreants and their drugs. You can leave my oay undre the usual rock — my middle grandson’s fourth daughter needs braces.” |
that a private car carrying narcotics was heading to Chittagong from Comilla.
"A RAB patrol team signalled the car to pull over but the drug pushers fired at RAB members from the vehicle,
| Why, oh why do the idiots always shoot first, forcing the RAB to respond? |
triggering a skirmish," Mimtanur said.
| ...during which the miscreants completely missed hitting anything at all... |
"Three bodies were later recovered from the spot along with 120kg cannabis, two firearms, and bullets," the RAB official said.
| The teo firearms and bullets will be cleaned and polished by the newest trainee, then returned to their velvet-lined boxes in Sgt. Siddique’s future-evidence room. The car, however, disappeared as if it had never been. |
The bodies have been sent to Chittagong Medical College Hospital for autopsies.
| “Paging Dr. Quincy. Dr. Quincy to the white courtesy phone.” |
More than a hundred suspected drug pushers have been killed since the government launched an anti-narcotics drive in May.
| The RAB is nothing if not incorruptible and terrifyingly efficient. |
Posted by: Fred 2018-07-27 |
