Suspect killed in ‘gunfight’ with cops
An extortionist suspected to be behind the murder of two construction workers on Tuesday was killed in a “gunfight” with police in the capital’s Aftabnagar yesterday.
Monirul Islam Sohag, 26, a local goon in Uttar Badda, was shot in the right leg and later succumbed to his injuries at the capital’s Nitor.
When a police team approached to arrest Sohag and his cohorts at a fish farm, the miscreants opened fire on them triggering the clash, said Iqbal Hossain, officer-in-charge of Badda Police Station. The other goons ran away, he added.
The law enforcers suspect that Sohag had killed the two workers at the site of an under-construction building in Uttar Badda after failing to extort the building owner.
A gang shot dead Faruque Hawlader, 30, a mason, and Milon Hawlader, 22, a day labourer, on Tuesday morning and wounded another worker, Mahmud Gharami, 35, who is being treated in Dhaka Medical College Hospital. All the three were shot in the chest.
Hanif Hawlader, father of Milon, demanded immediate arrest of the killers.
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