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Bangladesh
5 robbers killed in 'shootout'
2012-03-17
[Bangla Daily Star] At least five dacoits including two ringleaders of robbery gangs were killed in a "shootout" with Rapid Action Battalion personnel in Morabhola canal of the Sundarbans yesterday.
Oh, not in the canal! Oh wait. Where?
It's the Sundarbans. One must choose between the man-eating crocodiles, the man-eating tigers, or the dacoits. This time the dacoits lost.
The dead are
a bunch of bad boyz you're not going to remember tomorrow...
ringleaders Jihad, 40, and Sohag Farazi, 35, Al-Amin, 30, Asadul Boyati, 32, and Belal, 30, of different villages in Rampal and Sharonkhola upazilas.
So not only can't you find the upazilas on any decent map, you certainly won't find the villages therein...
The law enforcers also recovered 11 arms including a single barrel shotgun, three rifles, one pistol and two airguns and 250 bullets from the spot.
But no shutter-gun?
Acting on a tip-off,
Mahmoud the Weasel collects another ten-spot...
a joint team of Rab-8 and Rab headquarters led by Maj Sabbir Rahman Osmani conducted a drive at the canal under Sharankhola range of the mangrove forest
Not a banana plantation?
It's a jungle out there, bud.
around 9:00am, said Rab.
Does the RAB get double-time for anything after 6 am?
RAB men work for the cool uniforms and the cooler sunglasses. And the glory -- definitely the glory. What need have such men for time-and-half for overtime?
The Rab team for the first time in such a drive used a chopper
You think 'helicopter' but I suspect a bladed device...
to trace the robbers promptly, mentioned Maj Sabbir.

Spider senses tingling at the proximity of the law enforcers, the dacoits opened fire on them.
The dacoits couldn't hit the broad side of a mangrove forest, of course...
The Rab members retaliated
As they were honor-bound to do...
triggering the hour-long "shootout."
"Hey Sarge, can we stop the shootout? It's been an hour already!"
"Yeah, the local donut-eaters have had enough practice. Wrap it up."
At one stage the gang members were forced to retreat.
As if they'd never been there in the first place...
The Rab men then searched the spot
"Which spot?"
"THAT spot. And that one. And that one. And that one. And that one over there."
and found the five dead bodies.
Right where they left them...
A team of Sharankhola police reached the scene at noon
Well after the RAB boys were back home and snug in their beds...
and had been on their way back to Sharankhola with the bodies and recovered arms.
The RAB doesn't bother to collect mere dacoits, saving their effort for Purba Bangler commies at the minimum...
Police sources said at least nine 10 gangs in the area are currently involved in abducting fishermen for ransom and looting their valuables.
Posted by:Fred

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