 | It's just bandits and so non-WoT, but dang it sure reads like a 'crossfire'... |
Bagerhat, Feb 19 (UNB) - The ringleader of a bandit outfit was killed in a gunfight with police at Pici Baroikhali village in Morelganj upazila on Sunday.
| On the map, it must be. Special prize for the first one to find it. |
The deceased was identified as Sohrab Howlader, 35, ringleader of forest bandit gang 'Sohrab Bahini' and son of Abdul Jabbar Howlader of the village.
| The Bahini groups started out as Irregulars gone guerilla in the fight against Pakistan in 1971. After the Army of the Pure was driven out, some degenerated into banditry. It should be noted that many originally came from the left side of the aisle, which is perhaps why criminality came so naturally to them. |
Police super Khandaker Rafiqul Islam said police received secret information
"Hey, Sarge, it's that Mahmoud the Weasel again! You have time to talk to him?"
"Give me that, you ignorant #%!@?! Mr Mahmoud, sir, what can we of the police do for you today?" |
that 6/7 members of the gang, led by Sohrab, were preparing to commit robbery at the village.
"And then boys, we enter the village and rob it!"
"But boss, what if the police hear about our plan?"
"Relax Mahmoud, there's no chance of that happening!" |
As a team of police raided the village, they opened fire on them prompting the law enforcers fire back at about 12:30pm.
| Naturally. Even the village police have learnt of the etiquette of the crossfire. |
Sohrab was caught in the line of fire
| The line from the tip of the pistol to the point just behind his right ear... |
and died on the spot
| "See the X over there, lads. Shoot him once he reaches his mark." |
during the hour-long fight.
Police recovered the body and sent it to a local hospital for autopsy.
"Another one for you, Dr, Quincy."
"Put him over there and mark him 'deceased by natural causes', Jim."
"But Dr. Quincy, you haven't even turned around to look!"
"Don't have to, Jim. There's no sound of breathing, the spreading pool of blood on the floor is bright red, indicating an arterial source, and general silence from the policemen who brought him here suggests there's no hurry to try to save him. Five'll get you ten this one will have a single bullet hole behind the right ear, because crossfires and encounters have a magic effect on the one bullet the miscreant was fated to meet." |
One firearm and three bullets were also recovered from the spot.
| To be returned after a thorough polishing by the newest recruit to their velvet cases in the evidence vault. |
Sohrab was wanted in eight cases, said police.
| A second tier miscreant, but a miscreant worthy of his fate, nonetheless. One ponders the empty future of all those go-getting policemen and RABs, once the olde Biplobi and Bahini bandits left over from the 1971 war have toddled --or bled out -- to their graves. |
Three police constables-Abul Kalam, Robiul Islam and Hafizur Rahman-were injured slightly and later admitted to upazila health complex.
| Bullet-hit feet. Someone needs range time, which is why the encounter took so long. |
| I'm reliably informed that one had a bruised ego... |
A case was filed.
A total of 26 forest bandits, including seven ringleaders, were killed in gunfight with law enforcers in the last one year till the current month.
| Not quite RAB numbers, but respectable nonetheless. Three cheers for Bangladesh's law enforcement officers! |
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