 [Bangla Daily Star] Four suspected robbers were hit by bullets during a "shootout" with a team of Detective Branch of police in Gazipur city's Kodda Islampur area early yesterday.
| Whew! Now that, my dears, is reportorial efficiency. Catch your breath a moment before going on. |
The injured are Sultan Uddin, 42,
| Lucky him! Remember how when you were a kid, you wished people would call you a cool name like Duke or King or Chip? Sultan Uddin has got you all beat... though he spells it Sultanuddin, with accents on the second and fourth syllabbabbles. |
Salam, 40, Hamidul, 30, and Mamun, 25.
| All poor one-namers, who nonetheless are of an age when they should be mature householders, rather than rousting about robbing those who might have slightly more than they. |
Sub-inspector Ikbal Hossain of Gazipur DB
| Only the police this time, dear Reader, but Sgt. Siddique has been reading to them from The RAB Way in 90 Days... |
said suspected robber Mizanur Rahman a few days ago managed a job at Ocean Garment Limited as a security guard.
On Thursday evening, he fed sedative-heavy cakes to his colleagues, leaving all of them in deep sleep.
"Mmmmm, cake! Thanks, Mizmy, old pal -- I love " *SNORE*
*Snore*
*snooooor GAK snooooor* *plop* |
Around 2:30am yesterday, some 15 accomplices of Mizanur reached the factory by a microbus and started looting goods, said the SI.
| An upgrade on the usual dacoitery, to be sure. |
Acting on a tip-off,
| How on earth does Mahmoud the Weasel always know? |
the DB team launched a drive to foil the robbery. When the law enforcers reached the factory, robbers opened fire on the cops, he added.
| Bad move, guys. Now the cops will be forced to return the favour. |
The law enforcers fired retaliatory shots,
leaving the four bullet-hit. However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
the other members of the gang managed to flee.
| ...as if they had never been. |
The DB team later recovered some looted goods from a covered van near the factory and sent the four injured to Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital, said Ikbal.
"Four more for you, Doc."
"Don't want 'em, Jim -- they're still wriggling. Park 'em in the hall for another hour." |
Abdus Salam, resident medical officer at the hospital, said the four injured were brought to the hospital around 5:30am. They were given primary treatment before being referred to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH).
Sources at the DMCH said all the four, receiving treatment under police custody, were hit by bullets in their knee. "All of you -after that gang!"
"But Sarge, what about these four?"
*BANG* *BANG* *BANG* *BANG*
"AIEEEEE!"
"They're not going anywhere." |
SI Atiqur Rahman of Joydebpur Police Station said the factory authorities were preparing a case in this connection.
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