[Bangla Daily Star] A leader of inter-district dacoit gang was shot dead in a gunfight with police at Salabhara bus stand under Kaliganj upazila, Jhenidah early yesterday.
| You'll recall that a gunfight is nothing like a cross-fire. And anyway, it was the police who were gunfighting with the gang of dacoit miscreants, not the innocent Rab. |
He was identified as Hazrat Ali alias Daku Hazrat, 35, of Patbila village under Kaliganj upazila.
| It's on the map... somewhere. |
Acting on a tip-off,
| Mahmoud the Weasel strikes again! |
a patrol team of police cordoned off Salabhara bus stand where a gang of robbers was preparing to commit a robbery by felling trees on Dhaka-Khulna highway early hours of yesterday, Officer-in-Charge of Kaliganj Police Station Mehedi Hasan said.
| Goodness, all of that? It sounds awf'ly complicated. |
Sensing the presence of law enforcers, the dacoits opened fire on police prompting them to fire back that left Hazrat dead on the spot.
| Spidey Sense may have been honed to a fever pitch, but their manners were decidedly lacking. Everyone knows one never commences firing without first sending one's targets an engraved invitation. Under the circumstances, the police really had no choice but to forgo the niceties and respond in kind. |
Police recovered his body and sent it to Jhenidah Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy, the OC said.
Hazrat's accomplices however managed to flee the scene.
| Somehow. And yet they left no evidence of their presence even to the Sherlock Holmes-like detecting ability of the Kaliganj police. |
Police fired around 20 rounds during the "shootout", police said.
| No, no -- it was a gunfight, you dolts! Do try to keep up. |
A pipe gun, five bullets, three choppers and one saw were recovered from the spot.
| A flint chopper, or something more modern? So few can properly knap flint nowadays, you know. It's practically a lost art. |
| I'm trying to figure out whether a 'chopper' was an ax, a machine gun or a Harley ... |
During the gunfight police ASI Jamirul Islam and constable Aktural Islam of Kaliganj Police Station sustained bullet injuries.
| Scratched fingers and bruised palms acquired while loading bullets into clips, or so I've heard. |
Hazrat is accused in 16 cases including three for murders, two for bomb attacks and three for extortions.
| A thorough going badman, wanted on twelve systems for his crimes and misdemeanors. The Kaliganj police saved the judicial systems years of fuss. |
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