Pichchi Hannan aide killed in 'crossfire'
A suspected criminal, believed to be a close aide to slain notorious criminal Pichchi Hannan, was killed in 'crossfire' between the police and his associates near the Tejgaon truck stand in the capital early Thursday. At about the same time, a suspected drugs and arms dealer was killed in a shootout between his associates and the Rapid Action Battalion at the Naranpur crematorium in Sharsha upazila of Jessore early Thursday. The two deaths pushed the number of casualties in such incidents to 277 since June 2004.
| It must be something going around... |
Sources said Delwar Hossain (34), widely known as Dilu, an absconding convict received fatal injuries during a deadly gunbattle between the police and gangsters in front of Bizli Transport beside Tejgaon mini- truck stand at 81, Tejgaon Industrial area under Tejgaon police station at about 3:00 am. A special team of Tejgaon police station led by Officer-in-Charge (OC) Quamrul Islam arrested Delwar Hossain Dilu, son of Ahmed Ali (Painna Sarder) raiding a secret den of the criminals at Court House Street under Kotwali police station at about 1:30 pm on Wednesday. Later, according to his confessional statement, police along with Dilu started for Tejgaon truck stand area to nab his (Dilu's) accomplices and seize illegal firearms possessed by them.
| The old "Let's go get your arms at the deserted truck stop" ploy. |
"Don't kill me! Please don't kill me!"
"Shuddup! Get in the truck!" |
As they reached the spot at about 3:00am, | Let's see, arrest, confession, arms recovery, Ok, this is Step 4. |
....the law enforcers came under fire,
supposedly from the accomplices of Dilu.
Both sides traded at least fifty rounds of bullet during the shootout that continued for more than half an hour. Amid the subsequent shootout, Dilu tried to flee
...and was shot in the head and the chest, the police claimed.
Two policemen, Sub-inspector AKM Sultan Mahmood and Constable Rafiqul Islam of the Tejgaon police station, also sustained bullet injuries.
The police took Dilu to Dhaka Medical College Hospital at around 4:00am where attending doctors declared him dead.
| Step 10 - "He's dead, Jim" |
His body was sent to the morgue for autopsy.
| Step 11 - "Paging Dr. Quincy" |
| "Sam? Can you sign for him? I'm having my breakfast!" |
| Golly gosh, this reads suspiciously like the incident reported yesterday. Ya don't suppose the journalist is plagirizing, do you? |
Police sources said Dilu was wanted in 24 criminal cases. The police recovered a one-shooter gun and five bullets from the spot.
Gulnaj Begum, who lives in the slum near the truck stand, said she had only heard shouts 'catch him' and a couple of gunshots.
| That would account for the head and chest wounds. The accomplices of Dilu must have been using silencers on their guns. |
"[BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!]"
"*! *! *! *!"
"Aiiiieeee! Rosebud!" |
In Jessore Royal, 22, was arrested at his Beleramchandrapur residence at about 4:00am with 210 bottles of phensidyl.
"Stick 'em up, Royal!"
"Don't kill me! Please don't kill me!" |
When the RAB members were on the way to Jessore with Royal, they came under fire near the crematorium. The police claim Royal's associates fired several gunshots to snatch him away from the RAB custody, prompting the security force to retaliate.
| Well, of course they did. |
| Coppers have to set a good example in these things, you know. |
"*! *! *! *!"
"[BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!]" |
Royal, accused in a number of cases including gunrunning, was killed at one stage of the shootout. | Or killed in a staged shootout, take your pick. |
The battalion recovered German pistol, a locally-manufactured gun and five rounds of bullets from the spot. |