Five robbers were arrested by police while they were trying to loot a rice-laden truck at Sadardi in Bhanga upazila on Faridpur-Barisal highway early today (Sunday). Police said on information they seized the bus in which the robbers were chasing the truck and arrested them red handed at 2.45am. The bus driver, however, managed to flee. Police also recovered two Chinese axes and a big sharp weapon from their possession.
| "What the hell is that?" "I don't know, but it's big and sharp." |
Crossfire #1
A listed criminal of the city was killed in 'crossfire' between the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-3) and gangsters at Sutrapur in the old part of the city on Saturday night. The dead was identified as Firoz Alam Pintu alias Kala Pintu (32), son of late Fayez Uddin and a resident of 16/2 Alamganj Lane under Sutrapur police station.
According to RAB sources, on a tip-off that a gang of armed miscreants assembled at Alamganj under Sutrapur police station a squad of RAB-3 went to the spot at around 9.30am yesterday.
| 9:30 AM? Night shift must be putting in some overtime. |
| Funny how that works |
The body of Pintu was rushed to the morgue of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) for autopsy.
| "He's dead, Jim" |
Crossfire #2
A listed criminal was killed in 'crossfire' between Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and his accomplices in the early hours yesterday at Mirerkhil of Hathazari upazila. Hossain Ahmad alias Foyez Munna, who hailed from Panchlaish in Chittagong, was a cadre of ruling coalition partner Jamaat-e-Islami's student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir, said sources.
| So he's a young islamic thug, or was.. |
Earlier on Friday morning, a four-member team of Rab-7 with assistance of Rab-2 men arrested Munna at Motijheel Shapla Crossing area of Dhaka, sources said.
He was brought to Rab-7 headquarters at Patenga on Friday evening. He under interrogation said that Gittu Nasir, Sajjad Khan, Gias Hajarika, Taleban Sohel, and other Shibir cadres at different places of Chittagong possess a huge number of firearms. Besides, he confessed to having a few arms hidden at South Mirerkhil in Hathazari.
| Those "hidden arms" will get ya every time |
| O-Dark Four Thirty, check |
| Gang lying in wait, check |
| Shot trying to escape, check |
| Dead, check |
Sources said Munna was accused in five cases including one for triple murder. He and his men were involved in the double murder of Awami League leader Faruk Mahmud Siddique and businessman Solaiman Chowdhury in 2003. Munna was reportedly second-in-command of the gang of notorious Gittu Nasir, who had been sentenced to death in the sensational principal Gopal Krishna Muhuri murder case. He had been absconding since the murder of Shibir cadre Chhota Saiful, his brother and sister last year.
Another one bites the dust
In Kushtia, Mohidul Islam Shamim alias Mohit Malitha, 42, reportedly the second-in-command of Purba Banglar Communist Party (ML-Jonojuddha), died in a shootout between the police and his associates at village Lalongar under Daulatpur upazila early Saturday
Imam rapes 8yr-old girl
N'ganj: An eight-year-old girl was raped by an Imam in Razapur in Fatullah yesterday. The victim, a grade-four student at Razapur Government Primary School, went to the house of Saiful Islam, pesh imam of Razapur Pashchimpara Mosque, for Arabic lessons at around 11:00am.
| "Arabic lessons" - so that's what they're calling it these days |
| Pity they didn't finish the job. Oh well, maybe he's got some hidden arms, he is a imam after all. |
Saiful admitted to raping the girl at local police station in presence of reporters.
| Just following in the footsteps of big Mo |