 Outlaw killed in shootout with police
Sept 6: A suspected outlaw leader was killed in a shootout between police and his cohorts at Ramchandrapur in Santhia Upazila early today (Tuesday). The deceased was identified as Zia, 25, a local leader of Purba Banglar Communist Party (ML-Lal Pataka). He was wanted in seven cases, including five of murders, police said. | Busy little commie, wasn't he? |
Police arrested Zia from Alokdia village in Santhia upazila on Monday evening. | "Stickum' up, Zia! Youse coming quietly or do we have to git rough?" |
According to Zia’s statement, | taken while under the influence of a pair of vicegrips |
police took him to a graveyard to arrest his accomplices and recovery of arms at 3am today (Tuesday). | Our scene now shifts to the dark, almost deserted graveyard... |
As soon as police along with Zia reached near the graveyard, armed cohorts of Zia opened fire, | "They've got da boss! Open fire wildly!" |
forcing police to fire back. | Bang bang bangbangitybang! |
"Zia was caught in the crossfire and died on the spot," says the police account of the staged execution encounter adding that a pipe gun and three cartridges were recovered from the scene. | "Had to use a pipe gun, our shuuter guns are booked solid" |
| Didn't even have the decency to haul Zia to the Chittagong University Medical Center Level I trauma unit so that he could be declared dead by an expert. Sniff. |
Four policemen, including SIs saiful Islam and Abdul Gafur, havilder Abdul Ali and constable Shamsuzzaman were also injured in the encounter. |