 | This is a 'shootout', not a 'crossfire' ... |
A regional leader of outlawed Biplobi Communist Party (BCP) was killed yesterday in a shootout between police and his cohorts at Houspur village in Kushtia.
| No word on whether he was a new Biplobi or an old Biplobi ... |
The dead was identified as Anwar Hossain Selim, 35, son of Asan Ali of Katdah.
| Who's never heard of him ... |
Two policemen were also injured in the incident.
| An hernia and a splinter ... |
Sources said acting on a tip-off,
| ... that from Mahmoud the Weasel ... |
... a police team led by Kamruzzaman, the officer-in-charge of Mirpur Police Station, raided the Houspur brickfield where a group of BCP members were holding a meeting at about 2:30am.
| A brickyard for the Biplobi commies, how .. proletariat ... |
When the law enforcers asked the outlaws to surrender, ...
| 'Hey, why don't youse guys surrender so's we don't have to kill youse on the spot?' |
... they opened fire on the policemen ...
| 'We ain't gonna be in no crossfire tomorrow morning! Open fire boys!' |
... prompting them to retaliate.
| And it didn't take long before ... |
Selim was killed on the spot ...
'Which spot?'
'THAT spot!' |
... while his accomplices managed to escape.
| As if they were never there ... |
Two police constables Salam and Jahid were also injured during the shootout. They were admitted to Mirpur Upazila Health Complex.
| The guy with a splinter gets two days off, the guy with the hernia gets a truss. |
Police recovered a shutter gun and 22 rounds of bullet from the scene.
| So they checked out the shutter gun from its case at RAB headquarters before they paid a visit on Selim. How revealing ... |
Selim had been accused in at least 12 systems 15 cases on different charges including murder, police said. |