[Bangla Daily Star] Two criminals, including an outlaw, were killed in separate 'shootouts' between their cohorts and law enforcers in Faridpur and Chuadanga yesterday.We're on a roll here, with multiple shootouts a day...
The dead were identified as Lavlu Bepari alias Lavlu, 34,
Waitaminnit! How can you be alias your own name?
a convicted fugitive and Korban Ali, 42,
... alias Korban...
a regional leader of outlawed Gono Mukti Fouz, reports our Faridpur correspondent.
The dread Gono Mukti Fooz...
Acting on a tip-off,
"Hello? Is dis da Rab? Lissen, dis is Mahmoud da Weasel..."
a team of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab)
"Into the cruiser, men!"
raided Muktamancha area in front of the house of Poet Jasimuddin at Ambikapur, outskirts of Faridpur town, where a criminal gang was holding meeting around 3:30am, sources said.
"[Yawn!] Cheese! Why do we hafta hold our meetings at 3:30 in the morning, chief?"
Sensing their presence,
"Hark! My spider sense..."
"What about it?"
"It's tingling!"
"Is it a real heavy tingle? We haven't had time to read the minutes of the last meeting, you know!"
"It's pretty heavy."
"In that case..."
the criminals opened fire on Rab
[BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!]
prompting them to retaliate and triggering a 'gunfight'.
"Open retaliatory fire, men! Aim for the spot right behind their ears!"
Lavlu was caught in the line of fire and died on the spot
"Aaaaiieee!... [thud!]... Rosebud!
"Got one, chief!"
"Good shootin', Sergeant Rafiq!"
while his accomplices managed to flee the scene.
"Cheap flip-flops, don't fail us now!"
Rab recovered one pistol, two guns, and four bullets from the spot.
"Where'd the extra round of bullet come from?"
"Ummm... Sorry, chief. That one's mine."
Lavlu, an accused in 17 cases, was earlier sentenced to 14 years' rigorous imprisonment by a court in an explosive case, the sources said.
"Mother Bepari! Lavlu won't have to serve his 14 years rigorous imprisonment!"
"I'm so happy! Where is my baby boy?"
"Ummm..."
In Chuadanga, Korban Ali
... alias Korban...
was killed in a 'shootout' between police and his cohorts at Ghoshbila village in Alamdanga upazila, reports our Kushtia correspondent.
[Bang bang bangety bang]... Aaaiiieee... [Thud]... Rosebud... [rattle]...
Korban, hailed from Binodpur under Alamdanga upazila, was a close inmate of Gono Mukti Fouz leader Tagar, who escaped breaking Chuadanga jail on May 15, 2008 and was killed in 'crossfire' with Rab on May 22 same year.
[Bang bang bangety bang]... Etc... Etc...
On information, a team of Alamdanga police cordoned off Ghosbila field around 2:30am and asked the outlaws, who were holding a meeting, to surrender.
"We got yez surrounded! Come out witcher hands up!"
But they defied and opened fire on police forcing the latter to retaliate.
"Youse'll never take us alive, coppers!"
Korban was killed during the gunfight.
Rosebud!
His accomplices, however, managed to flee.
Like they never were there...
Police recovered a shutter gun and 10 bullets from the spot.
"Chief! Chief! It's a shutter gun!"
"Really? Lemme see that! My old gran'ther used to have one of these!"
"Looks just like the one in the evidence room, don't it?"
Korban was accused in six cases, including four for murder, police said.
He only had the death sentence on six systems. What a piker.