Thirteen suspected forest bandidos have been killed in separate "shootouts" between the law enforcers and them during raids in Sundarbans' Khulna range.The dear departed are the members of Kashem gang.
Paikgacha cop shoppe Officer-in-Charge Akkas Ali said: &ldquot: "Eleven bandidos were detained in the morning during a shootout, which left two members of the gang killed. On the basis of their information, police went to recover arms in Hadda area of Sundarban in the afternoon."
"Spider senses tingling at the proximity of the law enforcers, the other bandidos in the area opened fire on them, promoting the law enforces to fire back. At one point, 11 bandidos beat feet from the police custody. Later police recovered their perforated carcass from the spot."
Earlier in the day, two of the bandidos were killed while trying to abduct a teacher.
Police held the 11 other bandidos of the gang and recovered nine guns and 32 rounds of bullets from the spot.
Md Matiar Rahman, president of Deluti union unit BNP, said: "The bandidos came to abduct Ziton, elder brother of the college teacher. But they kidnapped the teacher as they could not find his brother. They were demanding a huge amount of extortion from Ziton."