AL leader killed in 'crossfire' at Keraniganj
 A thana-level Awami League leader was killed in 'encounter' with the Rapid Action Battalion at Keraniganj in Dhaka Tuesday night, raising the crossfire death toll to 284 since June 2004. | We had another 'encounter' just yesterday, seems to be a new tactic where they don't bother to arrest and interogate the suspect before their unfortunate demise. |
The RAB sources said a patrol team of RAB-2 in the evening went to Nazirabad Chandipara on information that a gang was there.
As the RAB team reached the spot at about 8:30pm, the criminals opened fire on them, who also fired back. | "It's the law! Git em boys!" |
Later, the RAB men found one of the criminals, identified as Mafizul Islam Dud Miah, dead on the spot. The elite force also recovered two firearms along with ammunition from the scene. The RAB said Dud Miah was wanted in more than a dozen criminal cases, including four murders, and involved in criminal activities in the Lalbagh, Hazaribagh and Kamrangirchar of Old Town.
Meanwhile, claiming Dud Miah as the joint convener of Meghna thana unit of the Awami League, the party's general secretary, Abdul Jalil, MP, in a statement said the RAB arrested him from the court premises without any warrant, when he went to the court to appear in a case at the speedy trial tribunal Tuesday noon.
| Oh, so maybe they did arrest him, before they didn't. |
Condemning the arrest, Jalil, in the statement, demanded his unconditional release and said the government would be responsible if any harm was done to him. | "Harm? We didn't harm him. Oh, sure, he's shot full of holes, but that wasn't us that done it. It must of been his boys." |
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