Staff Reporter :
Two persons were killed in separate ‘shootouts’ with police hours after their arrest in Brahmanbaria district early Saturday.
The deceased have been identified as Yusuf Mia, 28, son of Nurul Islam, from Suhelpur area of Kasba Upazila and Rokon Uddin, 45, son of Yakub Mia, inhabitant of Islamabad area under Sarail Upazila, police said. The two incidents happened in the district’s Kasba and Sarail upazilas.
On Friday night, police at Kasba arrested 28-year-old Yusuf Mia from the upazila’s Suhelpur with 90kg of marijuana.
Kasba Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Mahiuddin said, “Police took Yusuf to raid his hideout in the Kuti Union after seven hours of arrest from the upazila. Yusuf’s accomplices opened fire when the police team reached. The suspect was caught in the cross-fire and died on the spot,”
Police seized country-made fire arms and ammunition from the spot, the OC said.
Sarial Police OC Rupak Kumar Saha said, in another incident “Police took Rokon to raid several spots in the upazila. As soon as the police team reached Islamabad, the suspect’s accomplices attacked them. During the shootout, Rokon died but his accomplices managed to flee.”
A team of Police arrested Rokon Uddin with a stolen auto-rickshaw on Friday afternoon. The suspect told police during interrogation that he was in possession of 38 more stolen vehicles, the police official said.
The bodies were sent to the Brahmanbaria Sadar Hospital for post mortems.
