 A top criminal and leader of an inter-district gang of robbers was killed in "crossfire" between the members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and his accomplices in Chouddagram upazila of Comilla early yesterday. He was identified as Abdul Motaleb alias "Motaiya Dakat", son of Late Abdur Rashid of Purba Dekra village of the upazila.
| Was Daddy also a 'crossfire' victim? |
Rab sources said Motaleb was an accused in around a dozen criminal cases including two for murder.
| That would certainly get the RAB's attention. |
Being tipped off, a Rab team from the Feni camp of Rab-7, Chittagong, raided West Dekrerdighir Par under Alkora Union of Chouddagram at about 7:00pm on Thursday and arrested Motaleb.
| "Abdul! Nice to meetcha! Assume the position!" |
On his carefully but painfully extracted statement, a ten-member Rab team set out to recover illegal firearms, and arrest the accomplices of Motaleb, taking him with them.
| Gotta have Abdul with them to identify the goods, ya know. |
When the Rab men reached Golzer Road in Asfalia area at around 1:35am yesterday, ...
| A little early in the evening, but perhaps RAB-7 had other plans ... |
... Motaleb's cohorts opened fire, ...
| You'd think the big heat guys in Bangla would teach their minions to shoot straight, but they never seem to hit anything ... |
...forcing the members of the elite force to retaliate.
| The elite force guys do shoot straight, at least for the six inches into the back of Abdul's head ... |
Motaleb was shot during the shootout and died on the spot, the sources said.
| Didn't even get the chance to ask his feets not to fail him before he croaked 'rosebud'. |
The Rab men recovered one locally made gun, two light guns (LGs) and some bullets from the spot.
| I'm sure the locally made gun was a piece of fine craftsmanship, though not nearly of the quality of the RAB's craft ... |
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