 An aspirant candidate for chairman in union parishad polls, who had gone missing Sunday afternoon, was killed in a 'gunfight' with the Rapid Action Battalion at Golapdi in Araihazar upazila of Narayanganj early Monday.
| If this was Chicago instead of Golapdi, he'd still be on the ballot. And win. |
The police claimed that the deceased, Shafiqul Islam, 48, also a former union parishad chairman in Ziarkandi of Titas upazila of Comilla, was wanted on waaaay more than twelve planets accused in 38 cases, including seven for murder.
The latest incident took to 28 the number of people killed in 'crossfire,' 'gunfight' or 'encounter' after January 1.
| Lots of badmen no longer troubling the universe. The Rab are earning those cool sunglasses. |
Twelve of them were killed in Dhaka.
| *Sigh* Things are more competitive in the big city. |
Two hundred and fifty-eight people have so far fallen victim to extrajudicial killing by law enforcers since January 6, 2009 when the Awami League-led government assumed office with a commitment to end extrajudicial killings.
| Did they promise to end floods and put a pony in every pot, too? |
| Apparently they found things were better left unchanged - like a certain other administration. |
The victim's family suspect that Shafiqul, a sand trader at Gowripur in Daudkandi upazila,
| He's got your white coral sand, your black volcanic Hawaiian special (smooooooooth, dude), your basic sandbox tan... and for special clients, real Saudi dune spice sand. But you'll pay through the nose for that one. |
was picked up by the RAB sometime on Sunday afternoon after he had gone to the High Court to seek bail in a murder case.
| Seriously ambitious, that one. Two union parishad chairmanships, the sand trade, and yet another murder? When does the man sleep? |
Shafiq's widow Tahmina Akhter Baby told New Age
| That's the magazine with the pretty leaf on the cover. Sand, you know -- it's natural. |
at the DMHC morgue that she had talked with her husband at about 2:00pm on Sunday over phone but failed to reach him by phone at about 10:00pm.
'He used to return home by 8:00pm. After waiting till about 10:00pm, I called him but both of his cell-phones were switched off. At about 2:00am, an unidentified caller told me that he was killed,' she said.
She said that they had moved to Duaripara in Dhaka from Ziarkandi a few months ago.
The RAB-11 claimed that on a tip-off
| "Mahmoud the Weasel here. Listen carefully, I shall say this only once." |
they had raided Gopaldi Dakshinpara area where a gang of 'robbers' were taking preparations to commit a robbery.
| It was the sand. That Hawaiian black is like catnip for a certain kind of mind. |
Sensing their presence,
the 'robbers' opened fire at the RAM team, forcing them to return fire, triggering a 'gunfight'.
| You'll need hip waders to get through that sarcasm. There's a selection of sizes in the back hall. |
At one point, Shafiqul was wounded while his associates fled the scene,
| As if they had never been, oddly enough. |
a battalion release said.
Shafiqul was taken to a local health complex where the doctors declared him dead.
| "doctors"? Gee, at the medical college, it only takes one. |
The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the morning for post-mortem examination but a RAB team returned with the body in the afternoon without getting the autopsy done, the morgue sources said.
The battalion claimed that they had recovered one revolver, one pipe gun and one cartridge from the spot.
| "Hey! New guy! Polish those up and return them to the evidence room -- chop, chop!" |
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