 Top terror critically injured while trying to escape
May 17: Arrested top terror Bhupesh Barua was critically injured when he tried to escape from the police custody at Bagoan area under Raozan upazila in the district last night. | Gee, that's never happened before |
Sources said, police arrested top terror and Chhatra League cadre Bhupesh Barua on Sunday night.
| "Stick'um up, Baru! The chief wants a few words with you." |
Following his confessional statement,
| "Ouch! I'll talk, just get 'that' away from me!" |
| "Shucks, this little thing?" |
...policemen went to Bagoan area under Raozan upazila in the district at around 1 am last night.
| "Don't kill me! Please don't kill me!" |
At one stage, Bhupesh Barua tried to escape from the police custody.
"Lookit dat! Baru's tryin' to run away!"
"No, I ain't! Don't kill me!" |
| "Hey, get back here, we ain't finished talking!" |
Police shot him on his right leg when he was trying to flee causing the severe injury.
| BANG! "I said stop, dammit!" |
| "Aaaaiiiieee! My kneecap! You shot off my kneecap!" |
| "Quit whining, Allan gave ya two of them." |
| "Boy, I bet that stings." |
He was admitted to Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) last night but as his condition worsened, he was sent to Suhrawardy Hospital in Dhaka this morning. | "Nurse, arrange transport for Mr. Barua. I don't want him dying here on my shift." |
Arrested Bhupesh Barua is accused in ten cases including murder, terrorism and extortion.
Rab nabs 9 extortionists
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday arrested nine extortionists including a former sergeant of Bangladesh Army and a sub-inspector of police. Sources said Shahjahan, a former army sergeant, once used to work for Rab but had been sent back to Army on charges of corruption. | Got caught with his hand in the cookie jar, did he? |
On termination of his service from army, Shahjahan formed an extortionist group, and SI Kamrul of Kafrul Police Station joined him.
| Have to suplement that retirement pay somehow. |
Kamrul had been transferred to Rajshahi, but he did not join the new workplace.
| Decided the pay was better on the dark side. |
He was handed over to Mirpur police while the rest eight were kept in Rab-4 custody. Of the arrestees, Bhutto, 35, was admitted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital last night with bullet wounds in his hands and legs.
| Interesting wound placement |
Top City AL leader slain
Unknown assailants gunned down Law Affairs Secretary of Dhaka City Awami League (AL) Advocate Khorshed Alam Bachchu at Tejgaon yesterday, triggering violent street demonstrations in the capital. The main opposition has called a dawn-to-dusk hartal in the city for today in protest against the murder of Khorshed, a Supreme Court lawyer and also joint general secretary of Awami Ainjibi Parishad, a pro-opposition lawyers' forum.
"Harrr! A hartal! We need a hartal!"
"We had a hartal yesterday. We had a hartal the day before yesterday. Are we ever gonna go back to work?" |
Three gunmen sprayed point-blank around 10 bullets on Khorshed, 45, minutes after he came out of his 180/A, Tejkunipara house at about 9:45am. The assailants sped off in a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in which they came, leaving him dead on the spot. He took at least nine bullets in the forehead, throat, chest, abdomen and one of his legs. The motive behind the cold-blooded murder could not be immediately known.
"Youse guys bump off Bachchu, okay? Fill 'im full o' lead!"
"Hokay, boss! What'd he do?"
"Do?" |
The slaying sparked huge protests by hundreds of locals, and AL leaders and activists, who demonstrated against the government and demanded arrest and punishment to the killers. The rampaging protestors vandalised a good number of vehicles on Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue and blockaded the road for an hour causing severe traffic gridlock. The police clubbed the demonstrators, touching off a pitched battle between the law-enforcers and the agitators, who rained stones and other objects on the speeding vehicles.
| And a fun time was had by all... |
Advocate Khorshed's colleagues in the Court of District and Sessions Judge, Dhaka, where he also practised law, put off their work from 11:00am yesterday in protest. Supreme Court lawyers also stopped their work from 2:00pm yesterday and will observe a daylong work stoppage today. Awami League General Secretary Abdul Jalil and other party leaders visited the scene and Tejgaon Police Station to see Khorshed's bullet-riddled body.
EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT
Eyewitnesses said three youths started firing point-blank at Khorshed near a phone-fax shop at 153/A Tejkunipara, some 150 yards off his house, when he was passing the area in a rickshaw. "An old man ran into my shop and said three people were shooting a man and soon we saw a CNG autorickshaw," said Abdul Halim, a motor mechanic. An employee of a tailoring shop said he heard some 10 gunshots, looked out the window and saw three youths boarding a CNG-run autorickshaw, leaving behind a man in a pool of blood. Khorshed took a rickshaw in front of his rented house and was heading for the bus-stand to get to the judge's court, the police said. Tejgaon police last night arrested two--Sohel and Sujon--at the area for suspected links with the killing. Khorshed's wife filed a case with Tejgaon Police Station at 11:45pm the same night. Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner SM Mizanur Rahman said they have no clue to the killing. He added that they could not speak to the slain's family, which could have given them a lead, as it was trying to come to terms with the death. "The motive for the killing will be known soon," he told reporters yesterday. Huge numbers of police and Rab members were deployed in Tejkunipara.
| Hurrah! RAB's on the case! |
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