| They're putting bullets on trial now? What wonderful times we live in! |
at a slum of Panchabait in Bhairab yesterday afternoon.Rab claimed they recovered 41 bottles of Phensydil
| ...a cough medicine, the abuse of which leads to hard drug use on the Indian subcontinent... |
Rahima Akhter, 35, wife of Dhan Mia of the slum, with a bullet injury to the head was rushed to Narsingdi Hospital and then shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where she is undergoing treatment at the intensive care unit.
A group of 10 to 12 Rab personnel in plain clothes went to Dhan Mia's shanty around 3:30pm, witnesses said.
After a while, locals heard someone screaming from that shanty and rushed to the spot to find Rahima lying in a pool of blood. The group then identified themselves as members of Rab-11. The Rab members pointed guns at the crowd and warned them that they would open fire if the local people come forward, locals said.
Dhan Mia's brother Dulal Mia said Dhan Mia is a rickshaw-puller and Rahima is a house-wife and they are not engaged in drug peddling.
| "Wudn't them." |
...back at the pound, Zebulon finally found just the friend he'd been looking for...
Lt Col Gazi Mohammad Ahsanuzzaman of Rab-11 at a press briefing at Rab-9 headquarters in Bhairab yesterday said that on information they conducted the drive. Rahima was locked in a tussle with Rab personnel. At one stage, a stray bullet from one of the Rab personnel's arms hit her.
| "Accidentally behind her right ear -- statistics are a wonderful thing." |
| "And those slum dwellers are all in cahoots. Everyone knows that." |