Bandarban killing: Hunt on for the shooter narco

Law enforcers are looking for the drug peddler who shot dead an intelligence officer near the border in Naikkhyangchhari upazila of Bandarban on Monday, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said yesterday.

"Members of law enforcement agencies were on an anti-narcotics drive on the basis of information from intelligence agencies... An officer was shot dead there. We are working to get details on how he was hit by the bullet and which drug peddler opened fire," he told reporters at the capital's Fire Service and Civil Defence Training Complex.

Several thousand Rohingya refugees live there, the minister added.

On Monday, an officer of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (DGFI) from Bangladesh Air Force was shot dead and a Rab member was injured during a clash in Tumbru area of the border, said a press release of the Inter-Services Public Relations.

Rab and DGFI were jointly raiding the area at the time, it said.

The press release did not mention the officers' names.

Tontu Saha, officer-in-charge of Naikkhyangchhari Police Station, said the incident took place near a Rohingya camp along the border.

Inspector Bacchu Miah, in-charge of the police outpost at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said the injured Rab member, Sohel Barua, 30, was brought there around 3:00am yesterday.

Fazle Elahi Milad, associate professor of neurosurgery, said "There were wounds on his head caused by sharp weapons. He underwent a surgery on his head in the morning. Later, he was moved to the post-operative ward. His condition is now stable."

Meanwhile, Sajeda Begum, 20, a Rohingya woman allegedly shot dead during the clash, was buried around 11:00am at a graveyard of the Rohingya camp on the no-man's land, said Dil Mohammad, a community leader of the refugees.

Sajeda gave birth to a girl child just 10 days ago, he added.

Police were yet to issue any official statement about the woman's death as of 8:00pm.

[Our Cox's Bazar Correspondent also contributed to this report.]