[Bangla Daily Star] Law enforcers incarcerated two alleged criminals with firearms after trading gunfire with a gang at Chatmohor upazila in Pabna Tuesday morning.
The arrestees are: Habibullah, 33, of Atghoria upazila and Khandaker Habib, 32, of Chatmohor upazila, reports our Pabna correspondent.
| Google Maps is wonderful for this kind of thing, because one can keep zooming in until the upazilas appear. There are advantages to living in these modern times... |
Acting on a tip-off
| * ring, ring * Mahmudullah George the Weasel here -- Old Mahmud's grandnephew twice removed -- there's something going down here that I think you'll wanna do something about. |
that a number of criminals
were gathered at Idilpur village in Foilzana union of the upazila,
| What? No secret midnight gathering of the henchmen in some proletarian spot to plot mayhem? What is the matter with these backward village people? |
police conducted a raid in the area around 7:30am,
| Clearly the problem is not the miscreants, but the police. Staging crossfires when the more or less law abiding citizenry are up and about is simply asking for trouble. |
said Mohammad Habibul Islam, officer-in-charge of Chatmohor Police Station.
Spider senses tingling at the proximity of the police, the criminals opened fire on them, prompting the law enforcers to retaliate, the OC said.
| They didn't want to but simple courtesy mandates a response to such an invitation. |
They exchanged gunfire for nearly 30 minutes, the OC claimed.
| "Sergeant Chowdhary! See that the men get some range training -- and remind them they're supposed to aim for the target!" |
After the shootout, police managed to nab the two while the other gang members decamped the scene, the OC added.
| ...as if they had never been... |
Police also recovered a shutter gun, two bullets and a machete from their possession.
| At the top of the story it said "firearms," so clearly one of our miscreanting lads was shooting bullets out of the machete. |
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