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Bangladesh
Tales from the Crossfire Gazette
2006-01-18
An alleged outlaw and suspect of Bamihal police killing and arms loot incident was killed in 'crossfire' between the members of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and his accomplices in Singra upazila of Natore early yesterday.
No, I don't know where that is.
Rab members arrested Nazrul Islam of Bias Union in Singra upazila at Amin Bazar in Dhaka on the night of January 16 and took him to a Rab camp in Natore, said a Rab press release yesterday evening.
"Come with us, Nazrul, we wanna have a chat with you."
On his confessional statement, ...
... aided as always by Mr. Pliers and Detective Vise-grips ...
... a Rab team set out for Bias Union at about 2:30am yesterday, taking Nazrul with them.
They certainly weren't going to leave him behind.
When they reached Ratal Dighipara area, Nazrul's accomplices opened fire on the Rab men, ...
... said accomplices having no fire discipline and worse aim ...
... prompting them to retaliate.
Prompting the accomplices to flee, leaving Nazrul to suffer his fate alone ...

Rab said Nazrul was shot as he tried to flee during the shootout.
One would say his feets failed him, but getting shot in the back of the head from eighteen inches isn't conducive to fleeing ...
He was rushed to Singra Health Complex ...
... not a Level One trauma center, though it wouldn't have mattered if it had been ...
... where the doctors declared him dead.
Where Dr. Quincy was happy to leave the case until the morning.
Nazrul was convicted and charge sheeted in a number of cases including three for murder, according to Rab press release.
Which means his mother didn't even love him anymore.
A shutter gun, three bullets and five cartridges were recovered from the scene.
After which the shutter gun was put back carefully in the police lockup so as to be conveniently available for tomorrow night's crossfire.
Posted by:Steve White

#10  I came across a reference that seemed to say a shutter gun has an exchangeable chamber that allows firing of types and calibre of ammunition. Otherwise they seem to be manufactured in several countries. Why they should be so 'popular' in Banga, I have no idea.

Another RB thread on the topic
Posted by: phil_b   2006-01-18 18:43  

#9  RAB stories can only go so far. I need nuggets.
Posted by: 6   2006-01-18 18:02  

#8  When all this nonsense about a "Shutter Gun" first surfaced I made a thorough web search.

I found that a "Shutter Gun" is aparently a paintball gun.

Makes sense, you could fire other small spheres with it that are not paint filled, a lead ball at paintgun velocities would be a really severe hit, but not as bad as a real bullet

Or maybe a "Paintball" filled with acid or poison.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2006-01-18 13:47  

#7  ... aided as always by Mr. Pliers and Detective Vise-grips ...
Nazrul "nine fingers" Islam won't be missed.
Posted by: Inspector Clueso   2006-01-18 13:34  

#6  Well, that explains why I can't quite find out what a shutter gun _is_.

"Come with us, Nazrul, we wanna have a chat with you."

Nazrul? You mean he's one of The Nine?
Posted by: Phil   2006-01-18 12:47  

#5  Same here, A5089. I can imagine several sorts of weapons from the name, but no solid clue as to which it might be. Regards the memo, well, I guess we're not on the distribution list. *sniff* ;-)
Posted by: .com   2006-01-18 12:46  

#4  As near as we can tell, there's only one shutter gun in all the world, and the RAB keeps it safe in the evidence locker until it's time to take it out and plant find it on the corpse of the dread criminal...
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-01-18 12:42  

#3  I believe only one shutter gun was ever built.
And the RAB owns it.
Posted by: tu3031   2006-01-18 12:40  

#2  That story must have been told at least an hundred times here in Rb, but I still haven't the slightest idea of what a shutter gun might be.
Did I miss the memo or something, or does this fact remains one of the great unexplained mysteries?
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-01-18 12:15  

#1  *smile* As comforting as a familiar bedtime story, indeed.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-01-18 06:17  

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