This is a 'shootout', not a 'crossfire' ... | A regional leader of outlawed Biplobi Communist Party (BCP) was killed yesterday in a shootout between police and his cohorts at Houspur village in Kushtia.
No word on whether he was a new Biplobi or an old Biplobi ... | The dead was identified as Anwar Hossain Selim, 35, son of Asan Ali of Katdah.
Who's never heard of him ... | Two policemen were also injured in the incident.
An hernia and a splinter ... | Sources said acting on a tip-off,
... that from Mahmoud the Weasel ... | ... a police team led by Kamruzzaman, the officer-in-charge of Mirpur Police Station, raided the Houspur brickfield where a group of BCP members were holding a meeting at about 2:30am.
A brickyard for the Biplobi commies, how .. proletariat ... | When the law enforcers asked the outlaws to surrender, ...
'Hey, why don't youse guys surrender so's we don't have to kill youse on the spot?' | ... they opened fire on the policemen ...
'We ain't gonna be in no crossfire tomorrow morning! Open fire boys!' | ... prompting them to retaliate.
And it didn't take long before ... | Selim was killed on the spot ...
'Which spot?'
'THAT spot!' | ... while his accomplices managed to escape.
As if they were never there ... | Two police constables Salam and Jahid were also injured during the shootout. They were admitted to Mirpur Upazila Health Complex.
The guy with a splinter gets two days off, the guy with the hernia gets a truss. | Police recovered a shutter gun and 22 rounds of bullet from the scene.
So they checked out the shutter gun from its case at RAB headquarters before they paid a visit on Selim. How revealing ... | Selim had been accused in at least 12 systems 15 cases on different charges including murder, police said. |