2 killed in 'shootouts'

Two alleged criminals were killed in “shootouts” with the Rapid Action Battalion in the capital and Tangail early yesterday.
The dead were identified as Alamgir Hossain Alam alias Takku Alam, 38, and Mamunur Rahman Mamun, 25.
In the city's Hazaribagh, Alam was shot dead allegedly in a gunfight between his cohorts and a Rab team.
He was the second-in-command of the gang led by detained top criminal Sanjidul Islam Emon of the capital, said police sources.
Anamul Haque, officer-in-charge (OC) of Hazaribagh Police Station, said Alam was accused in six cases including murder charges filed with the police station.
A patrol team of Rab on suspicion challenged a group of people at Beribandh Baubazar of Hazaribagh at about 3:30am, the OC said.
Suddenly the gang opened fire on the Rab men prompting them to fire back. At one stage of the gunfight, the gang members fled the scene leaving Alam with bullet injuries on the spot, he added.
Around 4:30am the Rab team sent Alam to Mitford Hospital where doctors declared him dead.
A foreign-made pistol, one LG, five bullets, seven yaba tablets and some beer cans were recovered from the spot.
Meanwhile, in Tangail, Mamun was killed in a “shootout” at Sener Makulla village of Gopalpur upazila.
Rab sources claimed Mamun was an illegal arms trader.
A Rab team, acting on a tip-off, went to the village at about 1:00am to recover firearms, said Maj Mahfuzul Haque, commander of Crime Prevention Company-3 of Rab-12.
He told The Daily Star that as the team approached a brick kiln, the criminals shot at the Rab members. Mamun came in the line of fire when the law enforcers retaliated.
His associates, however, managed to flee the scene.
The Rab team claimed to have recovered two light guns (LG), one foreign-made revolver and five bullets from the spot.
Abul Khayer, officer-in-charge of Gopalpur Police Station, said police recovered the body and sent it to Tangail General Hospital morgue for autopsy.