[Bangla Daily Star] Two alleged robbers were killed and two others injured in a fight that broke out after police tried to foil a robbery attempt at Pahartali in Chittagong yesterday.The dead are Md Manik, 28, and Md Selim, 30. They were members of a gang known as "Belal Bahini".
"You there! Cease and desist your nefarious actions!"
"Cheezit! Da cops!"
Abdur Rouf, officer-in-charge of Pahartali Police Station, said: "The duo was killed by their own machetes as they waved those desperately after being caught by police."
"Mahmoud! Watch where you're waving that-- [CHOP!]"
"Bet that hurt."
"Briefly. Very briefly. Here, you! Try to control that sharp-edged instrument!"
[CHOP!]
"Aaaaiiiieeee! I am undone!"
The two maimed -- Liakat and Hasan who sustained injuries in a similar fashion -- were admitted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital, the OC said.
"Whoa! What happened to them?"
"Runaway machete."
Sub-inspectors Nurul Islam and Md Alim were also hurt in the incident.
"Look out, Nurul! It's coming this way!"
"Aaaaiiiieeee!"
Police raided the City Gate area of the port city on a tip-off that a gang was preparing for robbery around 1:30am.
"[Yawn!] It's 1:30am. What do you feel like doing, Liakat?"
"I dunno. Let's go rob somebody."
"Yeah. But don't tell nobody, okay? They might tip off the cops!"
"Hokay. Let me call my buddy Mahmoud and tell him where we'll be."
Sensing police presence,
"It's da cops! Run!"
"Don't worry! I got my [CHOP!]"
the gang members opened fire on the law-enforcers,
[BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!]
and then swooped on them with machetes, the OC said.
"[CHOP!] Take that, minions of the law!"Police tossed in the clink
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
eight members of the including the two injured, and seized a single-barrel gun, a light gun, 10 bullets, a bullet cartridge, three machetes and a rod cutter from their possession. The six other arrestees are Belal, Sekander, Ismail, Saiful Islam, Osman and Suman.
Sounds like they rounded up pretty much the whole bahini.
| And a good thing, too, since they got Belal. The Belal Bahini would've looked pretty sad without their namesake. |
"We have the death sentence on twelve systems!"
Belal, the ringleader, and his cohorts were accused in two robbery cases filed with Pahartali Police Station and several other cases in different cop shoppes in the district, he added.
"You got the right to remain silent..."
Three cases -- one each for assaulting police, robbery attempt and carrying arms -- were filed with Pahartali Police Station, said Suzaet Khan, deputy commissioner (west zone) of Chittagong Metropolitan Police.
| And thus the whole thing is wrapped up neatly and tied with a bow for placement in the archive, while the newest recruit is set to polishing the evidence before returning the items to their velvet lined display cases, there to await the next adventure of the Bangladesh Police. |