 Another suspected underground operative was killed in a gunfight with the police on the Kushtia-Meherpur highway under Mirpur upazila in Kushtia early Wednesday, raising the crossfire death toll to 378 since June 2004.
| Alas, another dacoit meets an untimely and completely unexpected end, demonstrating once again that while crime usually pays in Bangladesh, when it doesn't it's a real bitch. |
An Alamdanga police squad arrested Abdur Rashid Sagar, 42, believed to be a regional commander of the underground Purba Banglar Communist Party (Janajuddha), at a village in Kushtia upazila lair headquarters on Tuesday.
| Not just a dacoit but a Commie as well. Someone at the RAB is going to be promoted for this. |
He was wanted in more than a dozen criminal cases, including eight murders, the police claimed.
| Not likely that his mother loves him then. |
Based on his statement, ...
| "Ooch! Ouch! Do ya have to squeeze so hard?" |
...a police team took Sagar to Mirpur upazila to track down his sidekicks associates.
| No mention as to the time, but I'm betting it was a dark and stormy night ... |
As the team came closer to Sadarpur, a group of armed men opened fire, resulting in a shootout in which more than 50 rounds were exchanged.
| "Cheez it boyz, it's the RAB! Open ineffectual fire!" |
Half an hour later, after the gangsters had retreated, the police found Sagar critically wounded.
| Oh no! How ever could that have ever happened? |
He was taken to the Mirpur upazila health complex where on-duty doctors declared him dead.
| "He's dead, Jim. Tag him and ship him off to Dr. Quincy." |
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