A notorious terrorist known to be the sidekick of Sweden Aslam, one of the most wanted criminals in Dhaka''s underworld, was killed in an encounter between his cohorts and police in the city''s Tejgaon area on Thursday early morning. The terror was identified as Abdul Sattar locally known as Moga Babu (26), an absconding accused in several criminal cases including murders. The striking team also recovered one foreign made revolver loaded with three bullets from his possession.
Police said local people caught Moga Babu red handed while he was trying to commit a crime in Green Road area on Wednesday afternoon. The angry mob beat him up indiscriminately and later handed him over to Tejgaon police. During interrogation, police came to know that Babu and his sidekicks had a large number of arms and ammunition.
| Interrogation + confession + arms cache = crossfire |
| Nice and dark at 3am, not many witnesses either |
| "Yar! We're the Sidekicks of Babu, you'll never take him alive!" |
| "Ouch, ouch.....rosebud...." |
| "He's dead, Jim." |
Two Terrors Toasted
A suspected terror and his sidekick were set fire to death at Kazirgaon in Matuail area of the city Thursday evening, reports UNB. Demra police said that "rivals attacked and set fire Kana Ripon and his associate to death" at about 6:00pm. They could not give details as their team was on the spot. Kana Ripon, a "top criminal" of the area, was wanted in at least nine cases, including murders.
Five women muggers caught in Manikganj
BDNEWS, Manikganj :A mob on Thursday caught red-handed five women muggers while they were in a bid to flee from the spot by a CNG run auto rickshaw after taking away gold ornaments from a jeweller at Singair upazila in Manikganj. The women muggers were identified as Sathi, 40, Moni,25, Nazma,32, Jasmine,30 and Lucky,29). They were handed over to police. According to sources, they entered a shop called Suman Jewellers in the morning posing as customers and at one stage, they tried to flee the shop by an auto rickshaw, taking away more than eight tolas of gold.