Two suspected drug traders were killed in reported gunfights in Tangail and Rangpur early Sunday amid the countrywide anti-narcotics drive.
In Tangail, a suspected drug trader was killed in a reported gunfight with members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) during an anti-narcotics drive in Golra village of Kalihati upazila early Sunday.
The deceased was identified as Ruhul alias Kailya Ruhul.
Nazmul Alam, company commander of Rab-12, said the gunfight took place around 2 am which left Ruhul dead on the spot.
Two RAB men were also injured in the gunfight, he added.
In Rangpur, suspected drug trader Rafiqul Islam Opi, 45, son of late Ahsan Ali of Haragacha Municipality area in Kaunia upazila, was killed in a reported gunfight between two groups of drug traders.
Being information about the ‘gunfight’, police rushed to the spot and recovered Rafiqul’s body, said Saifur Rahman, additional superintendent of district police.
The law enforcers also recovered two pistols, a sharp weapon, 40 bottles of Phensidyl and 225 pieces of Yaba tablets.
