 [Bangla Daily Star] At least five dacoits including two ringleaders of robbery gangs were killed in a "shootout" with Rapid Action Battalion personnel in Morabhola canal of the Sundarbans yesterday.
| Oh, not in the canal! Oh wait. Where? |
| It's the Sundarbans. One must choose between the man-eating crocodiles, the man-eating tigers, or the dacoits. This time the dacoits lost. |
The dead are
| a bunch of bad boyz you're not going to remember tomorrow... |
ringleaders Jihad, 40, and Sohag Farazi, 35, Al-Amin, 30, Asadul Boyati, 32, and Belal, 30, of different villages in Rampal and Sharonkhola upazilas.
| So not only can't you find the upazilas on any decent map, you certainly won't find the villages therein... |
The law enforcers also recovered 11 arms including a single barrel shotgun, three rifles, one pistol and two airguns and 250 bullets from the spot.
Acting on a tip-off,
| Mahmoud the Weasel collects another ten-spot... |
a joint team of Rab-8 and Rab headquarters led by Maj Sabbir Rahman Osmani conducted a drive at the canal under Sharankhola range of the mangrove forest
| It's a jungle out there, bud. |
around 9:00am, said Rab.
| Does the RAB get double-time for anything after 6 am? |
| RAB men work for the cool uniforms and the cooler sunglasses. And the glory -- definitely the glory. What need have such men for time-and-half for overtime? |
The Rab team for the first time in such a drive used a chopper
| You think 'helicopter' but I suspect a bladed device... |
to trace the robbers promptly, mentioned Maj Sabbir.
Spider senses tingling at the proximity of the law enforcers, the dacoits opened fire on them.
| The dacoits couldn't hit the broad side of a mangrove forest, of course... |
The Rab members retaliated
| As they were honor-bound to do... |
triggering the hour-long "shootout."
"Hey Sarge, can we stop the shootout? It's been an hour already!"
"Yeah, the local donut-eaters have had enough practice. Wrap it up." |
At one stage the gang members were forced to retreat.
| As if they'd never been there in the first place... |
The Rab men then searched the spot
"Which spot?"
"THAT spot. And that one. And that one. And that one. And that one over there." |
and found the five dead bodies.
| Right where they left them... |
A team of Sharankhola police reached the scene at noon
| Well after the RAB boys were back home and snug in their beds... |
and had been on their way back to Sharankhola with the bodies and recovered arms.
| The RAB doesn't bother to collect mere dacoits, saving their effort for Purba Bangler commies at the minimum... |
Police sources said at least nine 10 gangs in the area are currently involved in abducting fishermen for ransom and looting their valuables. |