Arman identifies 7 people from video footage" Top terror" Arman now in RAB custody has identified seven people who were suspected of being involved in the August 21 grenade attack on Awami League grand rally from a video footage, informed sources told the New Nation last night.| "Ouch, OK, it was him, him and I think him. Now put "THAT" away!" |
Sources said that police has now got important lead to the August 21 grenade attack but would not confirm the source of the information.
Meanwhile, RAB members yesterday are learnt to have recovered a live grenade in the early hours of yesterday from village Borodeshi in Savar, in the outskirts of the city, apparently acting on the confessional statement of Arman.
| What, he didn't want to take you to it in person? Smart boy |
The RAB also nabbed one Amzad Hossain alias Anju, an accomplice of listed criminal Nazrul Islam, who is also accused in a number of criminal cases, including the murder of a police officer.
According to intelligence sources, the recovered grenade was very similar to the grenades hurled at the Awami League rally on August 21 and British envoy to Bangladesh Anwar Choudhury last year.
Sources said Arman reportedly confessed to the interrogators that he had close links with 10 to 12 former and present ministers, state ministers and members of Parliament. Ten mobile SIMs were also recovered from Arman. Intelligence wing of RAB divided into four groups were verifying phone numbers from the SIM card memory banks.
| Cross checking names with phone numbers. Making a list and checking it twice, gonna find out who's naughty and nice, RAB is coming to town |
Mob lynch top outlaw
CHUADANGA, June 16: Mob lynched an identified regional leader of outlawed Biplobi Communist Party at Boalia village of sadar upazila on Thursday, reports UNB. Informed sources said Akkas Ali, 32, went to the village at 6-30am for collecting tolls.
| "Show me the money!" |
| "No!" |
Nurses, doctors—all hostages-Faridpur Hospital—now a den of extortionists!
| "Next on Fox!" |
The notorious elements equipped with knives and daggers kept hidden in the pockets of their pants and shirts extort money from the patients and their attendants posing threat. This situation of extortion and cheating that has long been prevailing in the hospital has worsened recently.
| Normally you only see this kind of extortion from the hospital billing department |
On the night of June 11, a gang of drug addicts entered the hospital with lethal weapons and spend the whole night in and around the paying ward to the extreme horror of the on duty nurses and doctors. It is learnt by some nurses and attendants of patients that the miscreants forcibly took away money from some attendants of patients coming from far-flung areas of the district.
A sense of extreme insecurity has been prevailing among the inmates of the hospital. The concerned authority should security in the hospital campus.
20 injured as cops intervene in dispute over land in Sylhet
Sylhet :At least 20 people including two women were injured due to indiscriminate baton charge by the Kotwali police. A police constable injured himself by the bullet of his gun as he opened fire on the people at Khadimpara in the Sylhet city on Thursday afternoon. A sub-inspector was closed immediately and a divisional investigation committee was formed in this connection, said sources in the police.
The injured constable and two women were admitted to Sylhet Osmani Medical College Hospital in the evening.
Locals said there was a longstanding dispute over a piece of land between residents of Bahar Colony and the principal of Zinnunine Madrassah for a long time.
| Ah, a madrassah land grab |
| "This land ain't big enough fur both of us!" |
| Taking the side of the holy man I see.. |
| "Shit, that's gonna leave a mark!" |
| "Barney shot himself! Let's get em!" |