STAR REPORT

They lay in wait near a bus stop in Cumilla after midnight, posing as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver and passengers, watching for a lone traveller.

When customs official Bullet Bairagi got off a bus late on April 24, investigators said, they had found their target. Offering him a ride, they persuaded him to board the vehicle. He had little reason to suspect the journey would end in violence.

Once the auto-rickshaw headed towards a secluded area, the gang attempted to rob him. A scuffle broke out as he resisted, during which they threw him from the moving vehicle onto the footpath beside Irish Hill Hotel in Kotbari, causing severe head injuries. He died on the spot from excessive bleeding, investigators said.

The Rapid Action Battalion disclosed the details yesterday after arresting five suspects in connection with the killing.

At a press conference at the Rab Media Centre in They

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