3 'arms smugglers' killed by rivals in Meherpur

Criminals killed three people, allegedly involved in arms smuggling, by slitting their throats in Mujibnagar upazila of Meherpur yesterday morning.
Informed by local farmers, police recovered the bodies from a water body at Ratanpur village around 7:30am.
Robiul Hassan, officer in-charge of Mujibnagar police station, said they identified them as Robiul Alam, 40, son of Azmot Ali of Taranagar, Hiru Mondol, 35, son of Afaul Krishna Mondol of Joypur village and Abdul Hamid, 30 son of Asik Ali of Purontpur in the upazila.
According to police, Robiul, Hamid and Hiru were involved with illegal firearms trading. Several cases were filed against them with Mujibnagar police station under the Arms Act.
Of them, Robiul and Hamid were wanted by district police, the OC said.
Meherpur District and Sessions Judge's Court in 2008 sentenced Robiul, Hamid and Hiru to 14 years RI for smuggling firearms through the Indian border.
They came out of the jail after the High Court granted them bail in August this year.
According to police, the trio were active members of firearms smuggling rings in Meherpur border areas.
They said, Robiul had been staying at his father-in-law's house at Shibpuir village in the upazila for last three months.
“We had no link with them,” said Rasul, brother of Robiul.
Hiru's mother Sonali Mondol told reporters that her son went out of home yesterday evening after a phone call from border areas. Since then he had no link with his family.
“The trio might have been killed due to the internal conflict in the arms smugglers ring,” the OC observed.
Police have already launched a drive to nab the killers, said Mozaffor Hossain, superintendent of police in Meherpur who joined his duties yesterday.
Earlier on June 16, two siblings, allegedly involved in drug smuggling, were murdered by rivals in Gangni upazila of Meherpur.
The bodies of the three deceased were sent to Meherpur General Hospital morgue for autopsy.