OUR CORRESPONDENT, Narayanganj

At least three Rab members were injured in an attack in Narayanganj city yesterday, while assailants attacked police personnel and snatched away an arrestee, a Jubo Dal leader, in Rupganj.

According to a Rab statement, a four-member intelligence team of Rab-11 was collecting information as part of an anti-narcotics drive when drug dealers attacked them with sharp weapons in the city’s Boalia Khal area around 12:30pm.

Corporal Najibul and constables Mahi and Ibrahim were injured in the attack. Najibul was critically wounded and is currently undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

“All four members of the intelligence team were in plainclothes. Two of them were hacked with sharp weapons,” Abdur Rashid, deputy director of Rab-11, told The Daily Star over the phone.

A Rab official, requesting anonymity, said the attack was carried out by associates of listed criminals Jahid and Masud, also known as “Buitta Masud”, who are involved in drug trading in the area.

Rab sources said the same group had previously attacked a Rab team during an anti-crime drive in Gaibandha Bazar of Masdair on November 16 last year, when indiscriminate gunfire left a woman injured.

CCTV footage of yesterday’s incident shows several people, wielding machetes and cleavers, attacking the Rab members.

Abdus Salam, president of Narayanganj District Lt

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