ASI fatally run over by microbus
An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) was killed and a constable injured after a microbus carrying liquor rammed into them in the port city's Chandgaon area when they were on-duty early yesterday.
The deceased is ASI Kazi Md Salauddin from Laxmipur, and the injured is Constable Masud.
Police seized the microbus which was found abandoned with 730 litres of homemade liquor. No one has been arrested in this connection yet.
Inspector (investigation) Rajesh Barua of Chandgaon Police Station said, "ASI Salauddin was on night duty with a team of police in Mowlovipukur Par and C&B areas."
"He had information that a microbus was coming from the hill tracts carrying homemade liquor and was heading towards the port city. So he installed a check-post in Meherazkhan Ghata area around 4am."
"When Salauddin signaled the black microbus to stop, it slowed down. As he stood in front of the vehicle and asked the driver to step out, the microbus rammed him and the constable, and fled the scene," he said quoting the constable.
Salauddin was declared dead at CMCH" said Rajesh.
Drive is going on to arrest the culprit, he added.
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