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'Drug peddler' killed in Cumilla 'gunfight'
An alleged drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with police at Dhonpur in Cumilla's Sadar upazila yesterday.
Two ‘drug dealers’ killed in ‘gunfight’
Two suspected drug peddlers died in reported gun battles with police in Rajshahi and Narayanganj early yesterday.
'Drug peddler' killed in Cumilla 'gunfight'
An alleged drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with police at Dhonpur in Cumilla's Sadar upazila yesterday.
Govt making anti-drug law with harsher punishment
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government was formulating an anti-narcotics law keeping a provision of death penalty for the patrons of drug traders, drug syndicates and the godfathers.
2 more 'drug dealers' killed in 'gunfights'
Two alleged drug traders were killed in what police claimed was a gunfight in Kalibari area in the town early yesterday amid the countrywide ongoing anti-narcotics drive.
'Yaba couple' captured
Farhana Akhtar alias Papia married a drug dealer when she was just a teenager. She learnt the ins and outs of the illicit business pretty soon and expanded its network, especially by recruiting females.
Death count tops 100 in 15 days
So-called shootouts in the ongoing anti-narcotics drive keep claiming lives with the number of deaths standing at 108 until last night.
Moral Dilemma of the drug wars
News about security forces mowing down several dozen “drug dealers” in the last two weeks has got many of us writhing in moral agony over “shootouts” happening on an increasing tempo. True, drug abuse is highly detrimental to our youth and surely drug dealers need to be checked vigorously, but committing the state-sanctioned “ultimate sin” to rid ourselves of some low-level operatives is quite disturbing, to say the least.
10 drug dealers jailed in Comilla
A mobile court sentences drug peddlers to different terms of imprisonment in the town and Chandiana upazila.
12 more 'drug dealers' killed
Amid criticisms over the sudden surge in the killing of suspected drug peddlers in so-called gunfights, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday defended the ongoing nationwide crackdown on narcotics.
Flushing out complicit cops
Media reports reveal the shocking existence of a syndicate of members of the police force that are allegedly involved in smuggling Yaba drugs.