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Afghanistan/South Asia
Tales from the Crossfire Gazette
2005-07-11
Janojuddha cadre killed in crossfire
JHENIDAH, July 10: A young man allegedly cadre of underground Janojuddha died in encounter with police early hours of Sunday, reports UNB. Police said they raided a den of underground terrorists at Batpukuria, 20km away from the town, at 3-30am and faced with gunfire. They returned the fire in which Nazrul (27) died on the spot.
"Ouch....rosebud!"
His accomplices managed to flee.
Don't they always?
Two constables were also injured in the encounter.
A resident of Durgapur in sadar upazila Nazrul was wanted in four criminal cases including two murders, police said. Locals said Nazrul used to drive Nasimon, a three-wheeler, in the area.

Huge ammo haul in Bandarban
July 10: Security forces have recovered huge amount of ammunition early Sunday from Naikhkhangchhari and Thanchi border areas after an hour-long fierce gunfight with the criminals. Official sources here said the Army and BDR personnel, in a joint drive under a combing operation in Naikhkhangchhari, raided the area at the dead of night resulting in a gunfight with the criminals.
Of course it was in the "dead of night", they have fewer witnesses then
More than 40 teams of the joint forces cordoned 288 kilometres area of the Bangladesh-Myanmar border to wipe out the criminals after they were engaged in a gunfight with them at Tengra Murang Para of Naikhkhangchhari, another source said. The fighting over, the security forces detected a cache of weapons. They recovered weapons, included five hand-grenades, eight high-frequency walkie-talkie sets, 750 bullets of AK-47 rifle, 265 rounds of ammunition of Indian LMG and five rounds of pistol bullets. "Uniforms and hardware used by the criminals and some documents were also recovered from the scene," a security source said.
According to the security forces, some 100 bullets were traded between the two sides during the encounter, but another source claimed that both the sides exchanged more than 300 rounds of bullet in the gun battle. Although none of the joint forces was injured in the gunfight, it could not be known whether any criminal was killed or injured in the incident.
You'd think with all that shooting somebody would turn up dead. That is, of course, unless they were just shooting in air to make it sound like a gunfight
In a separate incident, the BDR members recovered a grenade, a pistol and five rounds of bullet from an abandoned house at Baro Madak Paiyya of Thanchi upazila carrying out a copycat operation. Earlier, the joint forces had netted huge quantities of explosives, ammunitions and magazines from Lembuchhari hills in Naikkhyongchhari.

Phensidyl factory unearthed at NGO office
BARISAL, July 10: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel unearthed a spurious phensidyl factory raiding an NGO office at Sanuhar bus-stand on the Barisal-Dhaka highway in Uzirpur upazila today, reports UNB.
In guise of drug-peddlers, members of the elite force went to the office of Rural Economic Development Organization (REDO), which runs as an NGO, at about 3:00 pm to receive delivery of 200 bottles of the narcotic syrup.
During the raid, they seized 600 liters of adulterated phensidyl, 200 bottles of prepared phensidyl, 2100 empty bottles of phensidyl, and huge quantities of powder, chemicals and other raw materials. RAB said Kamol Haldar alias Kamol Daktar, a rural medical practitioner, and his associates used to produce the contraband item under the signboard of the pseudo-NGO for a long time. Kamol was arrested and a case filed.

Two dacoits lynched
FENI, July 10: Two suspected robbers were killed while one of their accomplices was critically injured in mass beating at Mohodia village in Sonagazi Upazila early on Sunday, reports UNB. The deceased were identified as Rubel, 18, and Sujan, 25, of Daulatpur village in sadar upazila while the injured as Faruk Hossain, 25, of Sheikhpara in Sitakunda Upazila of Chittagong district.
Police said a gang entered the house of Abul Bashar making hole into the wall at about 3.30 am and looted valuables from the house at gunpoint.
"Hey, what's that noise? Sound's like we got some really big rats in the wall."

"As the family members raised alarm, local people rushed in and chased the dacoits. They caught three of them and gave them a heavy beating, leaving Rubel and Sujan dead on the spot," says a spot account of the lynching.
And a fun time was had by all.
Police super visited the spot shortly after the incident.

Suspected criminal killed
A top terrorist was shot to death by armed assailants at Brahmandi mahalla in the district town this (Sunday) morning. The deceased, identified as Wadud, 30, was the leader of `Wadud Bahini'' and wanted in 11 cases, including five murders, reports UNB. Police said Wadud came under attack when he was passing through Brahmandi area near the Brahmondhi Girl’s High School at 10:15 am. The assailants first shot Wadud at his head and neck from point blank range, then slaughtered him to confirm his death and left the place without any resistance.
Sounds like they really didn't like him
Wadud died on the spot. Suman was taken to the Narsingdi General Hospital and then sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in critical condition.
"He's not quite dead, Jim"
The police suspected that conflict over the sharing of illegally earned money might be reason for the incident. Meanwhile, Wadud Samarthak Goshthi called a daylong shutdown in the town for Monday protesting against the murder and punishment of the culprits.

2 culprits held, arms & wine seized in Ctg
CHITTAGONG, July 10: - Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in separate raids conducted late last night at city’s Bizid area and Comilla detained two culprits and seized arms and wine from their possessions. The detainees were identified as Nur Alam (25), son of Mohammad Aminur Rahman and Jashim Uddin, son of Abdul Wahab.
The RAB personnel said that they had seized a cut-rifle, a Light Gun (LG), a Pipe-gun including wine from the detainees possessions.
"A bottle of wine, a shutter gun, and thou"
The detainees were handed over to the respective police stations after primary quizzing and separate cases were recorded in these connections.

Drug queen shot dead in city
An alleged drug queen was gunned down by unidentified assailants in the city''s Kafrul area on Sunday. The assassinated was identified as Nazma Akter Kakoli (35), wife of Alamgir Hossain. The brutal killing took place just in front of the victim''s residence at house-7,block-D, line-3, section-13 under Kafrul police station. Police said unidentified assailants, numbering three to four, pounced on Kakoli while she keeping her little daughter in her lap was standing in front of her residence at about 7-15 am.
That's cold blooded
In no time, the gangsters shot her from a close range. The attackers fired two bullets of which one hit her chest, leaving her critically injured. Hit by bullet, the victim with her child fell on the ground in a pool of blood. Immediately, she was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) where the attending doctors declared her dead.
"She's dead, Jim"
Soon, the attackers fled the scene with no resistance, sources said.
Police said Kakoli was a listed drug trader. She was involved in drug business like phensidyl and heroin for long. Kafrul police arrested her last year for her alleged involvement in running drug business, police said. Kafrul police when contacted on Sunday night said Kakoli, accused in several cases of illegal drug dealings, used to sell heroin in the locality along with her husband, Alamgir Hossain, and her brother, Sirajuddin Liton. Her father Nurul Islam is also a listed drug trader, police said.
Another "Family Affair" moment
Police suspected that Kakoli might have been killed by her rivals as a sequel to old enmity over drug business. Morium Begum, aunty of the victim said that earlier members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested one Manik, also a drug trader. Manik thought that Kakoli was behind his arrest.
"The bitch ratted me out!"
As a sequel to it, Manik along with his accomplices might have killed Kakoli, Marium added. A case was filed with Kafrul police station in this connection. But none was arrested so far.
Posted by:Steve

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