A mob beat five criminals to death at Dharmapur of Satkania upazila in Chittagong early yesterday. Six people, including three community policemen, were also injured when the gang fired on them to make their escape.
The criminals were identified as Bashir, Ripon, Suman, Zobair and Syed Alam. The injured community policemen were Inu Munsi, 40, Nasir Uddin, 25, Amzad Hossain, 22, and locals Bahadur Islam, 16, Kamal Hossain, 23, and Syedul Alam, 22.
Sources said the armed gang of 10-12 men were carrying two chopped up and allegedly stolen cows through Dharmapur around 3.00am when on-duty community police and locals, jointly patrolling the area, challenged them.
The criminals made a run for it and the locals and the community police chased them. Villagers were also informed of the matter over horn speakers of a mosque.
Being pursued, the criminals started firing at the chasers and six people got injured.
Five of them were caught in front of Dharmapur Government Primary School and given a good beating which left them dead on the spot, said Officer in-charge Mohammad Aslam Hossain of Satkania Police Station.
Police rushed to the spot and recovered two guns, three cartridges and a bullet from the dead criminals, Aslam said.
He claimed they were members of a gang of robbers.
The bodies were sent to Chittagong Medical College Morgue for autopsy, said the OC.
The injured were rushed to nearby Dohazari Health Complex and were undergoing treatment.
Additional Superintendent of Police (South) Shafiqul Islam visited the spot.
Shafiqul told The Daily Star that crimes, mainly robberies, have increased alarmingly in the area recently.
He said the Satkania Police Station is run by only 25 policemen, quite insufficient to combat crime. “I already requested my superiors to make arrangements for additional policemen at the station to help the community police fight offences,” he added.
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