 An alleged robber
| Well, technically he's now a dead alleged robber... |
was killed in a “gunfight”
| Even the writers in B-desh know it wasn't really a gunfight... |
with police at Satighata Bazar on the Jessore-Manirampur road in Sadar upazila early yesterday.
| No doubt the Lavender mod will tell me where that is... |
| Far northeastern Bangladesh, on the border with Myanmar. |
| That's on the map, same as everywhere else in the world, O pink one. |
| And this is periwinkle, an equally old fashioned but differently purple flower. |
The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.
| Nor will it be known until some poor mother comes to the morgue looking for her wayward son... |
Elias Hossain, officer-in-charge of Jessore Kotwali Police Station, said on information that a gang of robbers were preparing to commit robbery on the road,
| ...where the pickings were better than in a banana grove... |
a team of police conducted a drive there around 2:30am.
| Lining them up and mowing them down... |
Sensing the presence of the police, the robbers opened fire on them, prompting the police to fire back. One of the robbers was injured in the gun battle, while his associates managed to flee the scene, he added.
| You'd think by now the Bangla-coppers would like, oh, throw a cordon around the road, or the banana grove, or wherever, and catch the associates? But no-o-o-o-o, it never happens, does it? |
The injured robber was rushed
to Jessore Medical College Hospital
| Not a Level 1 trauma center, but that doesn't matter because... |
where doctors declared him dead.
| Busy night for Dr. Quincy... |
Police claimed to have recovered some sharp weapons and a piece of rope from the spot.
| The rope was on the spot because that's what had been used to bind the wrists of our unfortunate unknown robber just before he was caught in the crossfire... |
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