 Extremist killed in shootout with RAB
MADARIPUR, Feb 28 (UNB): An alleged extremist was killed in a shootout with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members in the town early Wednesday. Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. | "We don't know who he is, but we're pretty sure he won't be doing any more extremist stuff." |
Acting on a tip off, RAB members raided the Paka Masjid area where a gang of extremists gathered at about 5:00am. | If I was a Bangladesh extremist, I'd start holding my meetings in a downtown hotel during the day while the RAB was sleeping |
But sensing their presence, | "Hark, I sense a disturbance in the force!"... |
..the outlaws opened fire on the elite forces forcing them to fire back. "The unidentified man was struck by bullet and died on the spot", RAB sources said. A revolver was also recovered from the spot.
Ultra-left party man killed in RAB shootout
| This may be our unidentified stiff |
A suspected ultra-left party man was killed in a shootout with the Rapid Action Battalion at a Madaripur village early Wednesday, taking to 779 the figure of such death from June 2004. The deceased, Obaidur Khalashi, was a regional leader of the Sarbahara Party and wanted in a number of criminal cases, the battalion said. The battalion said a team raided Mahiberchar in the district headquarters on secret information on an assembly of the ultra-left party operatives at about 4:30am. |