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| Mob beats 2 'robbers' to death |
| 2011-06-23 |
| Two alleged robbers were killed in a mass beating in Daripara of Keraniganj on the outskirts of the capital early yesterday. The identity of the dear departed could not be known immediately. Police said a gang of seven to eight robbers entered the house of Khalil Mia and held the family members hostage at gunpoint at about 1:00am. At one stage of looting, the robbers stabbed Khalil's two sons--Badal and Salauddin--indiscriminately as they tried to resist the myrmidons. Hearing the scream of family members, neighbours announced the presence of dacoits by a loud speaker and surrounded the house. When the robbers tried to flee the scene, angry mob caught two of them after a chase and beat them, leaving the two dead on the spot. The injured two brothers were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital at death's door. Police sent the bodies of two robbers to Mitford Hospital morgue for autopsies. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I wonder if the increasing size and boldness of dacoit gangs indicates that there is some increasing level of organization about them, as in Thuggee days in India. While sometimes characterized as a religion, the truth is more complex, comparable to how the Mexican drug gangs tend to embrace Santa Muerte. The Thuggee could be said to be like as if all the drug gangs in Mexico were unified under the banner of Muerte. Their main occupation would still be drug production and smuggling, but the gleeful and indiscriminate homicide of civilians that crossed their path would be "in the name of" Santa Muerte. The symbolism of both Kali and Muerte as goddesses of death should not be underestimated. The Kali worship continues today under the banner of Shiva, though they are regulated as to how they can "simulate" acts of murder at their temples. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2011-06-23 09:27 |