bdnews24.com :
Two people have been killed in an alleged gunfight between two groups of extremists in Bogura’s Sherpur Upazila, the police said.
The dead, ‘Liton’,35, and ‘Afsar’,45, are both members of the Sarbahara Party, according to the police.
The two are yet to fully identified by the police. The bodies have been sent to a morgue.
Sherpur Police OC Humayun Kabir said, the bodies were found lying on a bridge adjoining Bhabanipur Bazar under the Upazila’s Bhabanipur Union early on Saturday morning.
“Informed of a gunfight between two extremist groups in the area, a police team was dispatched to the spot. Some of the assailants fled the scene upon the police’s arrival. That is when we found two men lying at the site with bullet wounds. They identified themselves as Afsar and Liton.”
They were rushed to Bogura’s Shahid Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital, where doctors on duty declared them dead, said the OC.
Police recovered a gun, eight rounds of bullets, two machetes and three posters from them.
A case under the Arms Act is being prepared by the police in connection with the incident, said OC Humayun.
The incident occurs soon after hundreds of members of extremist organisations in northern Bangladesh heeded the government’s call and surrended to the authorities.
Two people have been killed in an alleged gunfight between two groups of extremists in Bogura’s Sherpur Upazila, the police said.
The dead, ‘Liton’,35, and ‘Afsar’,45, are both members of the Sarbahara Party, according to the police.
The two are yet to fully identified by the police. The bodies have been sent to a morgue.
Sherpur Police OC Humayun Kabir said, the bodies were found lying on a bridge adjoining Bhabanipur Bazar under the Upazila’s Bhabanipur Union early on Saturday morning.
“Informed of a gunfight between two extremist groups in the area, a police team was dispatched to the spot. Some of the assailants fled the scene upon the police’s arrival. That is when we found two men lying at the site with bullet wounds. They identified themselves as Afsar and Liton.”
They were rushed to Bogura’s Shahid Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital, where doctors on duty declared them dead, said the OC.
Police recovered a gun, eight rounds of bullets, two machetes and three posters from them.
A case under the Arms Act is being prepared by the police in connection with the incident, said OC Humayun.
The incident occurs soon after hundreds of members of extremist organisations in northern Bangladesh heeded the government’s call and surrended to the authorities.
