2 robbers killed in gunfight
Two people were killed in a gunfight between two groups of robbers in Cox's Bazar yesterday, just two days after a similar incident in the town.
Of the deceased, Nurul Alam, 46, was identified as ringleader of a gang known as Alam Bahini, and the other, Mohammad Kalu, 26, a Rohingya who was a member of the group.
Local people, aggrieved at their notoriety, thronged the Sadar hospital to see the bodies.
Alam was an accused in as many as 18 cases, including those of murders, while Kalu was accused of robbery in four cases, police sources said. Alam's wife Shahena Akhter was caught with firearms a month ago. She is in jail now.
The police claimed to have seized three homemade guns, four bullets, three bullet shells and masks after raiding the hilly area of Badshah Ghona, where the shooting took place around 2:00pm.
Alam Bahini fought with Rana Bahini as members of the latter demanded a share of Tk 5 lakh ransom that Alam Bahini realised after abducting a businessman on October 15, said Aslam Hossain, officer-in-charge of Cox's Bazar Sadar Police Station.
The police have been trying to arrest the robbers, the OC said.
Kalu's mother, Nurjahan Begum, who rushed to the Sadar hospital, however, alleged that police had killed her son.
She claimed that law enforcers had picked up the duo an hour before the incident.
Meanwhile, locals said gang leader Rana had been seen in the area with arms after the gunfight.
Earlier on Friday, a Rohingya youth, Sheikh Abdullah, was killed as two other gangs, Hasnat Bahini and Rocky Bahini, reportedly exchanged fires in the town's Rumaliarchhara, only a km from Badshah Ghona. Hasnat and Rocky has been in jail since.
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