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4 robbers killed in Rab 'shootout'

'Firearms trader' killed in another encounter; Rab terms him arms dealer

Star Report
Five people were killed in "shootouts" with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Bagerhat and Bogra districts yesterday.
Lt Commander Nuruzzaman, company commander of Rab-8, Patuakhali
camp, said four robbers of a local gang Gama Bahini died in a gunfight in the eastern part of the Sundarbans in Sharankhola upazila of ofBagerhat.
Of them, three were identified as Bachchu, 38, from Moralganj, and Jamal, 28, and Montu, 50, of Rampal, Rab said.
According to Rab sources, at least 21 firearms and over 100 bullets were recovered from the scene, reports a correspondent from the southern district.
The Rab team had received information that a consignment of firearms was being smuggled into the Sundarbans through Dudhmukhi canal.
The team challenged a trawler in the canal around 9:50am yesterday. Sensing the presence of law enforcers, the robbers from the trawler opened fire on the team. The Rab personnel fired back. At one stage, bandits anchored the trawler along the bank of the canal and fled.
However, police found four robbers dead at the scene and recovered firearms.
Mihir Kumar Dey, divisional forest officer of the Sundarbans, east zone, told The Daily Star that he had been informed of the inci-
dent by Rab and forest officers.
"FIREARMS TRADER" KILLED IN GUNFIGHT A youth was killed in a "gunfight" with Rab in Bogra sadar upazila yesterday morning.
Rab identified the deceased as Ranga Miah, 25, a trader of illegal firearms, whereas the authorities of a school in sadar said he had worked as an assistant to the driver of a school bus, reports our Bogra correspondent.
The Rab members also arrested five other firearms traders, seized two firearms, several explosives and medicines in their drive, Rab sources said.
The arrestees were identi-fied as Rezaul, Shakil, Mostafa and a couple, Abdul Razzak, 48, and his wife Bhanu Begum, 40.
Describing the incident, Sumit Chowdhury, a senior assistant superintendent of police (ASP) and acting camp commander of Rab-12, told The Daily Star that his team, purporting to be
arms buyers, had contacted a gang of illegal firearms traders and fixed a meeting in the Fire Service area.
When the Rab members in plain clothes reached the area around 10:00pm on Monday, Shakil and Rezaul made a deal with them and asked them to come another day to buy a shutter gun, the ASP added.
Then the law enforcers arrested the duo. A bullet of 303 rifle was found in Rezaul's pocket while a small knife in shakil's possessions.
The two told Rab that the firearms were with Ranga Miah, who at that time was in the Fire Service area. Rab picked him up from a street in the area.
After much interrogation about the location of firearms, Ranga took them to an abandoned place nearby, from where Rab men recovered four cocktails and materials used for making explosives.
Rab men also extracted from him the address of Mostafa's house where
they found one shutter gun. Mostafa was arrested there.
Upon further information from the arrestees, the law enforcers raided the house of Badhan, where they seized one cocktail and eight sacks of medicine of Bogra Combined Military Hospital (CMH).
The Rab team arrested Badhan's parents Abdul Razzak and Bhanu Begum. Bhanu works as a sweeper at Bogra CMH.
On further questioning the arrestees, Rab could know that Ranga and another member of the gang Hafizul, had jointly bought a revolver which they had hid in a nursery in Rabibari area of the upazila.
As the Rab team appeared at the nursery around 9:30am yesterday, Hafizul began firing at them. He managed to flee but shot from his gun injured Ranga, theASP Sumit said.
Critically injured Ranga was admitted to Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College and Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries, hospital sources said.
Rab members recovered a 0.22 revolver and six bullets from the nursery.