Two people were killed in a shootout between Rapid Action Battalion personnel and alleged carjackers in Ashulia early yesterday.The deceased are Hasan Matbar, 25, and Monir Hossain, 28. Rab claimed they were involved in carjacking.
What? They weren't Purba Banglar commies?
Acting on a tip off
... another special thank you to Mahmoud the Weasel ...
that some carjackers were waylaying near Morning Glory School on Bishmail-Jirabo Road,
No, we don't know where that is ...
a special team of plainclothes Rab
No black uniforms? No spiffy sunglasses?
went on a drive to capture them, says a Rab press release.
Went on a drive with Hasan and Monir in the trunk, it meant to say ...
The press release claimed that the gang halted the unmarked Rab vehicle and tried to overpower the Rab personnel inside to take over the vehicle.
Danger Sensing: Malfunction...
The Rab personnel chased them but the 'carjackers' opened fire on them forcing Rab to retaliate. According to Rab officials, the two were bullet hit during that time.
One behind each ear ...
The injured died after they were taken to Savar Upazila Health Complex.
Not a Level One trauma center, but they do have a spacious, well-equipped morgue ...
Rab recovered two foreign pistols, 10 bullets, six bullet shells and two knives from the spot.
Rab officials claimed that a group of thugs had been mugging, abducting people and carjacking over the last few days in the area.
However, Shumi Akhter, sister of deceased Hasan Matbar, told The Daily Star that Hasan was the owner of Chandra Para Automobiles and Manir Hossain was a worker of his workshop.
Maybe they were carjacking to get spare parts ...
They have no priors or cases filed in any police station, she said.
"They were good boys!"
She claimed that a driver of the workshop, who was arrested in connection with kidnapping a child, implicated her brother and Rab personnel murdered him.
The RAB does like to tidy up ...