Two criminals were killed in 'crossfire' between their accomplices and separate teams of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and police in Chittagong and Cox's Bazar in the last two days. Plainclothes Rab men arrested listed top criminal Babar Ali alias Petkata Babar from near Chittagong Jail gate Tuesday. Babar, who was just released on bail, was taken to the Rab-7 headquarters at Patenga for interrogation, sources said. The Rab, however, in a press release said he was arrested from Laldighi Par area when he was preparing for a criminal act. Following his statement, a Rab team took Babar to a hill in Chowhdury Nagar Bonobilash Residential Project area under Bayezid Bostami Police Station yesterday morning. | Nice quiet housing project in the wee hours of the morning when all the witnesses are still asleep.... |
| Just "happened" to be between the cops and the bad guys. Seems to occur couple of times every night. |
In Cox's Bazar, Belal Uddin, 36, son of Neser Hossain of Maizeghona village in Shaharbil, was killed in 'crossfire' between police and his accomplices at Omkhali Char in Chakaria upazila Tuesday night.
| See what I mean? |
2 dacoits killed after Bank dacoity in Noakhali
NOAKHALI, Jan 12:—Two dacoits were killed and six policemen injured in a gunfight between them at Chhoto Hossainpur village under Begumganj upazila of the district yesterday, reports BSS. Shahjahan, 35 and Jahangir alias Yakub, 30, leaders of an organized gang of inter-district dacoits, were killed while police was taking them to the village to nab their accomplices.
| "Come on you two, let's go round up your gang. Got any last requests?" |
Earlier, police arrested them on Monday, a day after the Rupali Bank, Rajganj branch dacoity incident took place. The dacoits looted Taka eight lakh after killing Noor Nobi, driver of an auto rickshaw which was carrying the money with a bank employee. He was also severely stabbed in the incident.
Following the confessional statement of Shahajahan, a member of the gang arrested from Daganbhuiyan upazila in Feni district soon after the incident, police arrested Yakub, 28, and Yusuf, 32, from Rangunia in Chittagong.
On a tip-off, police took the trio to Chhoto Hossainpur in the early hours of yesterday to nab their accomplices who were hiding there.
| Say "Goodbye", boys |
| "It's the law! They got the boys, let em have it!" |
| "He's dead, Jim" |
The injured police personnel SI Noor Hossain and constables Khaleq, Ismail, Nojir Miah, Ansar and Muslim were admitted into Noakhali general hospital.