 [Bangla Daily Star] Four bandidos were banged in Pabna on Wednesday in separate incidents of 'shootout' and attacks while another alleged small-time Mister Big was also waxed in an 'encounter' with the Federales in Cox's Bazar.
| Commies and criminals cavorting in Cox's Bazar. Truly ... |
The deceased were identified as Faruk Ahmed Paban, 40, a central leader of Lal Pataka faction of outlawed group Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-ML), Siddique Pramanik, 35, and Bishu Pramanik, 26, two hard boyz of Janajuddha faction of PBCP, Mohammad Khokon, 27, a cadre of local outlaw gang 'Bahini' and Rashed Uddin Chowdhury Babar, 35, an alleged criminal in Cox's Bazar.
Our Pabna correspondent reports, Paban was scrubbed in a 'shootout' between Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and his cohorts in Ishwardi upazila early Wednesday.
Is that closer to Kushtia or Bagerhat?
Hailing from Baraichara village of the upazila Paban was accused in several cases including murder most foul and robbery charges, claimed Rab.
Rab-12 Pabna Camp Commander Lt Commander TAH Mahmud said acting on a tip off from the always reliable Mahmoud the Weasel that Paban was holding a secret meeting in the dead of night with his accomplices at a field in his village, they conducted a raid in the area.
"Sergeant Rafiq! Load up the men!"
Spider senses tingling at the proximity of the elite force, Paban and his associates opened fire on them, prompting them to retaliate with fire, Mahmud added.
After nearly a 20-minute 'shootout', Rab found Paban lying in a pool of blood, he added.
"Whose blood was it, Captain?"
The accomplices of Paban, according to Rab, who opened fire on them, managed to flee the scene
... as though they had never been
leaving three guns and eight bullets on the spot.
On March 25, 2007
| Our thanks to newly hired clerk Mahmudullah, who discovered the draft of this report in the wrong file |
Rab jugged Paban with a huge amount of arms and ammunition including eight sub-machine guns (SMG) and 1,500 rounds of bullets
| That's rather a lot. Usually rounds of bullet are found in single digit amounts. |
from Sadar upazila of Pabna. He was placed on remand in the case filed in this connection and was later released on bail.
Siddique Pramanik, a Janajuddha operative, succumbed to his injuries on Wednesday morning hours after a bomb attack on him in Ataikula upazila of Pabna.
Md Sirajul Islam Chowdhury, officer-in-charge of Ataikula Police Station, suspected that the rivals of Siddique might have hurled bombs on him around 2:00am while he came out of his Choradanga residence responding their calls.
Siddique sustained severe injuries in the bomb attack and was rushed to Pabna Sadar Hospital where he died at about 8:00am.
Unknown assailants chopped Bishu Pramanik to death Wednesday afternoon at Halbaria Boalia bazaar in Santhia.
Officer-in-charge (OC) of Santhia cop shoppe Md Robiul Islam primarily suspected that the party rivals might have killed him over a tolls collection row.
In another incident, assailants chopped Md Khokon of Satgachha village in Atghoria around 4:00pm on the day while the victim came out of his house to have a dip in the nearby pond.
Atghoria OC Abu Hanif suspected the killing occurred in sequel to intra-party feuds.
Meanwhile,
...back at the ranch...
a correspondent from Cox's Bazar adds, an alleged local criminal was killed in a shootout with the members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)-7 at Kalabagan area under Eidgah union of Cox's Bazar Sadar upazila in early Wednesday.
Rashed Uddin Chowdhury Babar, 35 of Meherghora village accused in 23 cases including murder, robbery and other criminal activities, was killed round 3.30 am.
| A very, very badman indeed. Very bad. Not even a mother could love such a badman. |
Babar's family alleged that it was a planned killing.
Babar was a son of late freedom fighter Master Syedul Alam Chowdhury of Uttar Maijpara village under Eidgah union. He was the joint convenor of "Amra Muktijoddar Santan" and a former leader of upazila Chhatra League.
| So degenerates the family spirit from generation to generation. One desperately hopes Mr. Babar had no children, or at least no sons. Miscreant daughters generally only push their mothers-in-law into the bread oven, which has a much more limited effect on the neighborhood. |
The post mortem of Babar was held at Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital morgue. After namaj-e-janaza at Eidgah High School ground his body was buried at family graveyard in the afternoon.
Cox's Bazar Model police Station Officer-in-Charge Mohammad Shahjahan confirmed the incident.
He said the Rab members recovered a locally made LG, a long machete and three bullet cartridges from the spot. |
[Dhaka Tribune] Unknown miscreants on Tuesday night rubbed out a member of murderous Moslem outfit Purba Banglar Communist Party at Charulia of Damurhuda upazila in Chuadanga. The victim, Saiful Islam, 35, was a resident of Ramnagar village and son of Nazrul Islam.