Thursday, June 19th, 2008Abdur Rashid Malitha alias Tapan alias Dada Tapan, founder of outlawed Janajuddha, was killed in a 'shootout' with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in the early hours yesterday.A woman reportedly from the 'women wing' of the outfit also died during the 'shootout'.The Rab recovered huge arms and ammunition including one AK47, books and leaflets of the banned outfit and also arrested Tapan's elder brother Akash.Operatives of the outlawed communist outfits see the death as another blow to their two-decade underground "armed struggle" in the south and northern regions to establish socialism after the death of Mofakkar Hossain, founder of Purba Banglar ...
(read more) Wednesday, January 17th, 2007A heavy gunfight between Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and Border Security Forces (BSF) of India left at least two Indian nationals dead at Hatkhola border of Panchbibi upazila in Joypurhat early yesterday morning. Meanwhile, the BSF killed a Bangladesh national and picked up another at Enayetpur border of Biral upazila in Dinajpur.The BDR and BSF also exchanged bullets in Chuadanga and in Satkhira yesterday.At Hatkhola border, locals said fighting broke out when BSF killed two Indian cattle smugglers around 5:30am after they entered Bangladesh territory with cows, our Bogra correspondent reports.One of the dead was identified as Subhas, ...
(read more) Wednesday, November 29th, 2006Heavy gunfight took place between Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Thakurgaon and Satkhira borders yesterday.In Thakurgaon, the border skirmish took place on Dharmagarh frontier under Ranishankoil upazila following the death of a Bangladeshi farmer in BSF firing.The dead was identified as Ershad Ali, 30, son of Mortuza of Shahanabad village under the upazila.Meanwhile, the Indian border guards gunned down another Bangladeshi farmer near Nitpur frontier in Porsha upazila of Naogaon district yesterday morning.The dead was identified as Mohiful Islam, 40, of Nitpur village.Around 400 people of Shahanabad and adjacent villages left their homes following ...
(read more) Friday, November 17th, 2006Despite stepped up security for the election commissioners, the Mohammadpur residence of Election Commissioner Mahmud Hasan Mansur came under fire yesterday morning. The commissioner was home when some unknown men shot several times at the house on 7/10, Sir Syed Ahmed Road. None suffered any injury though.Witnesses said they saw a white microbus roaming the road and its adjacent lanes around 5:45am.On finding the house after some time, the attackers fired several shots at it and sped away in the microbus, said Momen, a next door guard.No one tried to stop the vehicle, said an employee of Nabil Paribahan, located ...
(read more) Thursday, November 16th, 2006Four robbers were killed during a gunfight with police while two others lynched by locals in Raozan upazila of the district early yesterday.The dead were identified as Azad, 27, Absar, 27, Khokan Barua, 26, Afsar, 24, Salahuddin, 27, and Alamgir, 25. All the six hailed from kadalpur in Raozan.Police recovered two light guns, two pipe guns, seven cartridges, one camera, two mobile phone sets and three torchlights from the spot.Sources said a contingent of 40 cops, led by the officer-in-charge (OC) of Raozan Police Station, took position in Bibirchhara area near Shamshernagar at midnight Tuesday on information that a gang ...
(read more) Monday, October 16th, 2006Two gangsters belonging to an organised group of violent criminals -- the Hamidul-Rashidul group -- were killed in a 'shootout' between police and the gang at Milpara area early yesterday.The dead were identified as Majid, 35, son of Shamsuddin of Berkalua in Kumarkhali upazila and Piplu, 32, son of Abu Bakar of Milpara area in Kushtia.According to police, the Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested Majid and Piplu from Milpara area on Saturday after a gunfight with the Hamidul-Rashidul group.A team of DB raided the Milpara area at around 2:50pm after a tipped off where the kingpin of the gang ...
(read more) Sunday, September 24th, 2006Two regional leaders of the outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party ML Lal Pataka faction were killed during a 'shootout' between their cohorts and the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab).The incident took place at Natunpara of Dhulauri union under Santhia upazila early Saturday morning. The dead were identified as Haiful Islam and Hazrat Ali of the same village.Rab12 received a tip off and cordoned off the Natunpara brickyard early morning yesterday to capture the outlaws, Rab said.The wanted criminals opened fire on Rab and Rab returned fire in defence. Haiful and Hazrat died on the spot during the 'shootout', claimed Rab. ...
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