 Top Khulna terror killed in encounter
Sept 5 : A top terror of Khulna, Md Saifuzzaman alias Shoaib alias Ripon alias Babu, 30, was killed in an encounter between RAB members and his associates in Rupsha upazila of Khulna district early today (Monday). A regional leader of the Janajuddha group of the outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party, Shoaib was one of the most wanted outlaws. He was an accused in at least 16 different cases including 8 cases for murder. He was a charge-sheeted accused in the journalist Humayun Kabir Balu murder case of Khulna thana. He was also a FIR-named accused in the Havilder Akram murder case of Sonadanga thana. | "I'm wanted on 12 systems!" |
According to sources, Shoaib was a most dreaded extortionist who used to maintain a gang for collection of illegal toll from different organisations and individuals in Khulna city and adjacent areas. Due to his criminal activities, both his parents and three brothers severed all connections with him by making a declaration before the Notary Public in March, 2003. His father Maulana Abdul Wahab, better known as Bulbuleay Bangladesh, is a well-known Islamic cleric in Khulna and Barisal divisions. | Dad wouldn't have disowned him if he had only persued a career in jihad |
According to a press release issued today by RAB-6, a RAB patrol team stationed at Katakhali crossing of Rupsha tried to halt a private car at the designated check-point at about 3-40 am today (Monday) but it sped away towards the Rupsha bridge, defying the signals for stoppage. Immediately, the officer-in-charge of the RAB patrol team sent wireless message to another patrol party of RAB stationed at Jabusha crossing, asking them to halt the car. | "Calling all cars, we got a runner!" |
Seeing the obstacles created by the Jabusha patrol, the occupants of the car started firing on the RAB members and their vehicle from their running car. | "Da coppers blocked the road! Open fire!" |
Reacting against the firing, the RAB men took cover beyond their own vehicles and other barriers and began to fire back at the car. During this exchange of fire, the car hit the railings of a culvert on the road and came to a halt. | Wow, just like "Wildest Police Videos". |
The occupants of the car then got down and began to run away from the scene, firing at random. | "Random fire, don't fail us now!" |
When the firing stopped, the RAB men cordoned off the area, conducted a thorough search and found the bullet—hit outlaw lying beside the car. He was sent to Khulna Sadar Hospital where the attending doctors declared him dead. The members of the elite force conducted a search operation at the nearby Jabusha village to nab the fleeing terrorists but none could be traced. | Vanished, into the night. Just like they were never there. |
The RAB members recovered one foreign SBBL gun, one country made revolver, eight rounds of ammunition and three spent cartridges from the scene. The car abandoned by the miscreants was seized by the police. | "For Sale, used get-away car. Only shot up once. Needs cleaning" |
According to the press release, the elite force strengthened patrolling and checking of the vehicles on key points last night after it had received information from some "secret" sources that some suspicious elements traveling in a private car from Dhaka along the Dhaka-Mawah-Gopalganj road on the night of September 4 would reach Khulna and might carry out some destructive activities there. | That "secret" source wouldn't have been the now deceased Shoaib, would it? Just curious. |
The press release says that the patrol microbus of the RAB has been damaged after it was hit by the bullets fired by the miscreants. | "Crap, now I'll have to fill out those vehicle damage reports, in triplicate! Next time, rookie, you're signing for the car" |
Film actress Prema held on charge of beating taxi driver
Police arrested the film actress Prema and three others including her brother and sister from the city’s Ramna area on Sunday. Sources said film actress Tania Shikder Prema along with her brother Sumon, sister Shova and domestic help Nargis were going to meet a friend in a taxicab.
Prema was locked in an altercation with the cab driver Shaheen and beat him mercilessly in front of the High Court under Ramna police station.
Hearing the shouts, a patrol team of police rushed to the spot and arrested all of them on charge of assaulting the driver. | Some things are universal, I guess. |
2 snatchers beaten to death in Chittagong
Sept 5: Two alleged snatchers were killed and another was severely injured in mass beating by the mob at Mirjarpole at Moradpur in the city at around 8 pm tonight. The identity of the victims could not be known till filing this report at 8.30 pm tonight. | "Yuck, we're gonna need DNA to ID this lot" |
Sources said, a gang of armed miscreants numbering four attacked one person at Mirjarpole at Moradpur in the city at around 8 pm tonight to snatch money from him. | "Yar, we be the Miscreants of Moradpur! Give us yur money!" |
The victim started to shout when the snatchers attacked him. Hearing the shout of the victim, local people surrounded the snatchers.| "Hey, they're trying to rob Bob! Get them!" |
The people caught three of them while another snatcher could manage to escape from the spot. The mob beat the said snatchers severely causing the death of two of them on the spot and injuring another one. | WACK..SLAM..KAPOW..THUD..."rose..bud!".. |
Meanwhile, police rushed to the spot and recovered the alleged snatchers. Police sources said, two of them died on the spot and another one was admitted to the Chittagong Medical College Hospital at 8. 30 pm tonight. | "He's still alive, Jim. But, that's gonna leave one hell of a mark" |
It may be mentioned that it is the second incident of mass beating in Chittagong within three days. Earlier, six dacoits were killed and five others injured severely in mass beating at Noyahat at Kashias under Potiya upazila in the district on the night of September 2 last. The armed dacoits looted huge household goods, money and gold during the robbery there. |