Man killed in ‘gunfight’ with police

An alleged robber was killed in a “gunfight” with law enforcers in Jhenidah’s Maheshpur upazila early yesterday.

Shaharul Islam Khokon, 36, of Jashore’s Chowgachha upazila, was accused in seven robbery cases filed with different police stations, claimed police.

On information that a robber gang had blocked Khalishpur-Jibonnagar road with tree trunks to rob passengers of their valuables on inter-district buses around 2:00am, a patrol team of Maheshpur Police Station went there.

Rashedul Alam, officer-in-charge of the station, said as soon as the team had reached the spot, the gang members started firing on them forcing them to retaliate.

At one point the robbers fled the scene. police found bullet-hit body of Shaharul on the ground, said the OC, adding that they also recovered a firearm, bullets, and a sharp weapon from there.

The body was sent it to Jhenidah General Hospital morgue for an autopsy.