[Bangla Daily Star] Five suspected robbers were killed in a shootout with a Rapid Action Battalion team in the capital's Uttara last night, Rab said.
Rab-1
The original Rab, the one which set the pattern for all the rest. Pause for a moment of awe and appreciation before we continue our tale. | personnel locked away two suspects.
"Hey! Mahmoud! Achmed! Why don't youse come wit us? Real peaceful like." | Commander M Sohail, director of Legal and Media Wing of Rab, told The Daily Star that a Rab team deployed to ensure security to Eid shoppers challenged the gang
"Yeah, you, little boys, we're talkin' to you!" | in Sector-13 of Sonargaon Janapath.
It's the capitol of the country, so Google Maps can probably get you there without unfolding the football field-sized monstrosity we usually need to find these places. | Sohail claimed that the gang opened fire on the team around 8:45pm
They sure do things differently in the big city. Out in the upazillas, miscreants haven't even awakened at that time. | triggering the shootout.
Bad move in response to a little RAB trash talk... | "Five of the criminals were rubbed out at two places near Mascot Plaza, two others were jugged and five firearms--two revolvers, two pistols, a pipe gun--five bullets and a machete were recovered from their possession," said Sohail.
*sigh*. The Rab-1 are too sophisticated for rounds of bullet any more. | The identities of the dead and the jugged could not be ascertained immediately, he said.
The former don't matter and the latter will soon join them... | Narrating the one sided fire fight, the Rab director said,
"At the bottom of the third, it's RAB 5, Hoods 0" | "Two of the criminals were killed in the first phase of the battle when the Rab personnel challenged the criminals...
"As cohorts of the criminals tried to save their partners in crime,
by spraying fire indiscriminately... | the second phase of the shootout ensued in which three suspects were killed."
"By the numbers, guys, always by the numbers. We have a reputation to maintain." |
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