Four killed in Cox’s Bazar ‘gunfights’

Cox’s Bazar Correspondent: At least four people were killed in separate two gunfights in district’s Teknaf and Pekua upazilas early Wednesday.

BGB members also recovered one lakh and 90 thousand pieces of yaba tablets from a spot.

The deceased could not be identified immediately.

Two drug traders were killed in a reported gunfight with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) at Kharangkhali in Teknaf upazila around 4.30am.

Shariful Islam Jamaddar, acting commanding officer of BGB-2, said one of their patrol teams stopped a group of drug traders entered Bangladesh through the Kharangkhali border. The men suddenly opened fire when the BGB team challenged them, triggering a gunfight. Two of the men were killed on the spot, he said, adding that 1.9 lakh Yaba pills were recovered from the spot. The bodies were later handed over to Teknaf police.

In another incident, two sea robbers were killed in a ‘gunfight’ with members of RAB.

 

risingbd/Cox’s Bazar/March 27, 2019/Rubel/Mukul