6 hurt in clash with pirates
Six fishermen received bullet wounds in a clash with pirates in the Meghna River in Bohanuddin upazila here Saturday night. Police and local sources said, a clash ensued between fishermen and a gang of pirates when the pirates swooped on a fishing boat at Kazir Hat sluice gate point in the river at midnight. The bullet-injured fishermen are Azad Bhuiyan, 40, Alamgir, 48, Bellal, 30, Hasan, 28, Kabir, 22, and Ratan, 40. Nurul Islam, one of the pirates, was captured by the fishermen after the two-hour long clash.
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