 [Bangla Daily Star] Three criminals were killed in 'shootouts' with law enforcers yesterday in the capital, Kushtia and Bagerhat.
They are Johnny, 32, Mohon Malitha, 45, a leader of Purbo Banglar Communist Party and Fashiur Rahman Shanu, 45, ringleader of pirates' gang 'Shanu Bahini' in the Sundarbans.
| Oh dear, Purblo Banglar Commie hardboyz and pirates hanging together -- how could it be that totalitarians and pure laissez fairees have ought in common? |
Police said a patrol team of police signalled a private car to stop in Mirpur area around 3:00am.
| It must have been the pirates' car. Communists wouldn't deign to be transported in something so plutocratic. |
The team chased the car as the passengers tried to escape defying them. The criminals opened fire on police prompting them to fire back that triggered a gunfight near Kalyanpur Balur Math, said Officer in-charge of Mirpur Police Station Mizanur Rahman.
| A gunfight in racing cars? How exciting -- just like the American gangster movies! And even one of the miscreants so thoughtfully named Johnny... |
After the incident, Johnny was left with bullet injury on the spot and sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the doctor on duty declared him dead.
"The bullet injury is on that spot, Dr. Quincy."
"Yes, Jim, that's why he's dead. That spot is immediately fatal, as the police well know." |
Al-Amin, 30, a member of the gang, was arrested while others fled the scene.
| There's no mention of a micro-van, so it must have been a clown car they used for the fleeing. |
Police recovered one revolver and three bullets and seized the private car.
| The revolver and bullets were returned to their velvet-backed homes, but the private car is now being driven by the police chief's eldest son -- a late birthday present. Not for them the near-monastic self-restraint of Rab personnel. |
Johnny was an accomplice of top-listed criminal Bikash in Mirpur and was accused in seven cases including murders, the OC alleged.
| Wanted on twelve systems for all sorts of crimes ending in -try, unloved even by his mother, as proved by the fact that she did not demand his remains for burial. |
Constable Akramul Islam of the patrol team sustained bullet injury to the hand in the gunfight and was undergoing treatment at Rajarbagh police hospital.
| Nicked his finger on it while snugging it into its velvet-lined, cedarwood box, he did. Jim put on a bandaid under the supervision of the august Dr. Quincy. Nurse stood ready with scalpels and full anesthesia, should they prove needed. |
In Kushtia, Mohon Malitha was killed at Lalnagar village in Daulatpur upazila.
| We'll leave that for Old Patriot to find. I finally got the map folded up, and I'm not trotting off to the football fields to unfold it in this rain. |
Acting on a tip-off,
| Sarge -- it's Mahmoud the Weasel on the phone! He needs money for the kids' school fees again. |
Rab-12 raided Lalnagar where PBCP cadres, led by Mohon, was holding a meeting at about 4:00am.
| Yes, the timing is right, and the participants, but where is the suitably proletarian meeting place? Clearly the captain of Rab-12 needs to insist that all staff go through training to properly write reports. |
As the outlaws were asked to surrender, the criminals opened fire on the Rab personnel. The Rab team retaliated that left Mohon dead.
| *sigh* Where, oh where is the colour and detail of the reports of yesteryear? (yestermonth, actually, but let's not quibble) |
His accomplices, however, managed to flee the scene.
| As if they were never there. |
Rab recovered a locally-made gun, one bullet, two bombs and two knives after the incident.
| Bombs? Not something I'd be comfortably keeping in the supplies locker. Never can tell when one of those things might decide to go off. |
Mohon was accused in seven cases, including six for murders, said Daulatpur police.
| Definitely a badman and a miscreant. |
In another incident, Shanu was killed at Nandabala Canal in Mongla upazila of Bagerhat.
| What, a third? The nights are busier, now that Ramadan has ended. |
| 1. Mahmoud the Weasel galvanizes a response |
On information, police swooped on Nandabala Canal | 2. A bit late, timewise, but the police are not yet up to Rab standard |
at about 7:00am where the pirates were preparing to commit robbery, Officer in-charge of Mongla Police Station Kazi Jalaluddin told The Daily Star.
| 4. Crossfire, started by the badmen, has its inevitable result |
Shanu came in the line of fire as the criminals opened fire on the law enforcers.
| 4a. Let us pause for a moment of respect for the shooting skills of all involved. |
After the gunfight,
he was found dead while his accomplices fled the scene.
| 7. "Back to the evidence locker with you, my pretties!" |
Police recovered one rifle and nine cartridges from the spot.
| 8. Wanted on twelve systems for dopery, mopery, barratry and murder, truly he was a badman. |
He was accused in several cases, including murders.
| 9. Our wounded heroes are treated for splinters and released |
Constable Zakir Hossain and Havildar Abu Musa were bullet-wounded in the gunfight and admitted to Mongla Upazila Health Complex.
Two separate cases-- one under arms act and another for assaulting police--were filed with Mongla Police Station.
| And so ends another tale of the heroics of the Bangladeshi police and the Rab. |
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