[Bangla Daily Star] A Shibir cadre was killed in a "shootout" between activists of the pro-Jamaat student body and Rapid Action Battalion in Rajshahi city early yesterday.
| Woo hoo! It's been a while since we've had the real thing! |
The dear departed, Shahadat Hossain, 30,
| ... a middle class two-namer... |
| ...with no alias, alas... |
was wanted in a number of cases
| ...wanted on twelve systems... |
filed for attacking police, said Ashit Kumar Ghosh, officer-in-charge of Motihar Police Station.
| Wait -- if it was a police case, now did the Rab get involved? |
He was accused in five cases of attempted murder of cops
| ...as a matter of principle alway a bad idea... |
and other acts of violence, said the OC, adding that two of the cases have now come to trial. | To be dismissed due to the lack of an accused? |
Shahadat was involved in almost all the attacks on police that had taken place since February at Binodpur, Kajla, Talaimari and Panchabati in the city, said the OC.
| Clearly a busy and ambitious man, our Shahadat. |
| Too ambitious for his own good... |
Acting on a tip-off,
| *ring, ring* "Mahmoud the Weasel III here. I'm calling you instead of the police because I can only remember one phone number." |
a Rab team went to Amjad intersection at Binodpur around 3:30am to break up a gathering of Shibir activists,
| Three-thirty a.m.? Mahmoud's grandson ain't as punctual with his reports as the old man was. |
said Shampa Yasmin, additional superintendent of police and media wing officer of Rab-5.
| Ummmm... isn't that double dipping or something? Historically the Rab and the police were very, very separate. |
| He may be moonlighting... |
Sensing their presence,
My spider sense! It's tingling again! To arms! Aux barricades!
the Shibir men shot at the Rab members, forcing them to return fire.
| It's a matter of honour and good manners, donchaknow. |
At one stage, with Shahadat's body lying on the ground, the other Shibir activists took to their heels, she added.
"Where's Shabir?
"He's on the ground."
"That's our cue to leave, boys!" |
The team sent the body to a morgue.
"Here's another for you Dr. Quincy!"
"Great, Sam, stack him in the back with the others." |
The Rab members found a 9mm pistol, a magazine with five bullets, six crude bombs and three bottles of petrol near the body, the Rab official added.
| The Rab deserves additional accolades for preventing immolation of the evidence. |
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