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Youth killed in 'shootout'

DB says he hurled bomb at police van before 'gunfight'; family denies

Staff Correspondent
A youth was killed in a "shootout" with a Detective Branch team in the capital's Jatrabari area early yesterday, taking the death toll in such incidents to 24 since the BNP-led alliance called the ongoing blockade on January 5.
Of the victims, 15 were killed in "shootouts" with police while nine with the Rapid Action Battalion. In the last six days, 10 "gunfights" left 11 people dead.
Yesterday's victim, Russell Sarder of Fatullah in Narayanganj, was an employee of a mobile servicing shop in South Keraniganj, his family said.
His newly married wife Shefali Begum broke down in tears, embracing the
lifeless body smeared with blood and mud on a trolley at the Dhaka Medical College morgue.
"Mother, your son is no more. They killed him. Who will now look after me?" she told her mother-in-law over the phone around 2:10pm.
Talking to The Daily Star, she said her husband had gone out of their residence for his workplace around 11:00am on Thursday. Two hours later, his cell phone was found switched off.
Russell had been traceless since then, Shefali claimed, adding she went to at least nine police stations in the capital and Keraniganj in search of her husband but none could give her any clue.
Victim's brother Akash Sarder claimed that five to six months ago, South Keraniganj police arrested Russell from home and demanded Tk 50,000 for his release.
"As we could not afford the money, they implicated him [Russell] in a murder case. He was on bail," Akash told this correspondent over the phone.
DB VERSION
A group of criminals hurled cocktails and petrol bombs at a DB van at Matuail in Jatrabari area around 3:00am. They also fired bullets, prompting the DB men to retaliate with shooting that left a man injured, said Jahangir Hossain Matubbar, deputy commissioner of DB (east) of
Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
Law enforcers took the injured to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where he was declared dead.
A pistol, two bullets, four crude bombs and two petrol bombs were recovered from the spot, claimed the DC.
Watching TV news on the incident, family members went to the DMC morgue around noon and identified the dead as Russel Sardar.
But DC Jahangir Hossain claimed the man was known as Boma Russell, whose name came up in the confessional statements ofShahiduIIah Khan and Parvez. The two are accused in cases for the January 23 Jatrabari bus arson that left one dead and 28 injured.
UNIDENTIFIED BODY
On information from locals, a police team found a bullet-hit body of a man near a garbage bin on Purabi-Kalshi road in Mirpur yesterday. Aged 30 to 35, he was shot in the head, cantonment police said.
Seven crude bombs and seven petrol bombs were found beside the dead, they added.
Atiqur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Cantonment Police Station, said the man was in gabardine trousers, a shirt and an ash-coloured jacket.
The body was sent it to the DMC morgue for an autopsy.