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Download PDF Armed members of United Peoples Democratic Front (UPDF), an anti-peace accord group, ambushed an army team at Maichchhari in Rangamati Sunday evening killing the team’s commander Captain Nurul Azam Gazi.
Sources said the ambush ensued a half-hour-long firefight between the armed members of a pro-peace accord group and the UPDF around 4:30pm. No casualties were reported in that battle.
Following the firefight, Captain Gazi, also the camp commander of Ghilachhari army camp, led a team of army personnel towards the spot of the firefight. As they reached Maichchhari area, members of UPDF ambushed them. Gazi was critically injured in the incident receiving two bullets in his head.
He was flown to Chittagong Combined Military Hospital where on-duty doctors declare him dead.
However, quoting Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), the news agency UNB reported that the captain was caught in a crossfire during a triangular firefight between the anti and pro-peace accord groups and another army petrol team when he led his forces into the battle.
Army sources said army personnel from the brigade headquarters and neighbouring camps conducted raids at the surrounding areas to capture the culprits. They, however, failed to capture anyone.
The captain was later flown to Bakerganj in Barisal where he was laid to rest near his village home.
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