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| Mugger killed, SI hurt in gunfight |
| 2010-05-31 |
| [Bangla Daily Star] A mugger was killed and a police officer injured when police opened fire on a gang of fleeing muggers near Mirpur Bangla College in the capital yesterday. The muggers also hurled cocktails at the police to avert arrest. Following a tip-off, a team of plain-clothes police from Mirpur Police Station challenged a gang of five muggers near an under-construction footbridge in front of the college at about 10:30am. Sensing the presence of law enforcers, the criminals hurled a cocktail on them. As the police fired shots in the air to counter the attack, four of the criminals fled by two bikes while the rest jumped into a Mirpur-bound running pickup van. Sub-inspector Shahinur Rahman of the police station received a splinter in his right eye. As the fleeing muggers hurled five more cocktails from the running vehicle, police fired several shots at it causing injury to the mugger. The injured mugger, around 27 years of age, fell down from the vehicle with a bullet in his abdomen. He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead. SI Shahinur told The Daily Star, they came to know that a gang of miscreants were waiting under the footbridge and planning to attack the employees of a garments factory who would cross the area after withdrawing money from a bank. The plain-clothes policemen in a microbus went to the bridge and found that five youths in two motorcycles were waiting there. Md Sumon, owner of a tea stall at the spot said, some youths in two motorcycles were roaming the area for about half an hour. As the law enforcers in a microbus challenged the youths and tried to search them, they exploded a cocktail, he said. Kazi Wajed Ali, officer-in-charge of the police station, said two policemen fired 10 rounds of bullet during the chase. Police collected specimens of six exploded cocktails from the spot, he added. SI Shahinur received treatment at Lions Eye Hospital, Agargaon. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 This is the city. I was working the day watch out of Mirpur Bangla upzillia, filling in for RAB-12. My name is Sub-inspector Shahinur Rahman. I carry a badge. We wuz tipped off about some muggers hurling cocktails and not wanting to waste good hooch we proceeded.... |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2010-05-31 19:48 |
| #1 The muggers also hurled cocktails at the police to avert arrest. Did they have little umbrellas in them? |
| Posted by: classer 2010-05-31 04:04 |