UNB, Cox’s Bazar :
A suspected drug trader was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with Border Guard Bangladesh(BGB) members at Shah Parir Dwip in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday.
BGB 2 commander Ld Col Md Faisal Khan said a BGB team challenged two people in the Naf river at Golarchar point of Shahporir Dwip around 5 am they opened fire on the border guards forcing them to fire back in self-defence, triggering a gunfight.
At one stage, one of them fell into the river after sustaining bullet wound while another managed to flee, he said.
Later the BGB men recovered 52,000 Yaba pills and a gun from their boat.
Teknaf model police station officer-in-charge Abdul Alim said being informed by locals, they recovered a body from near Jaliapara BOP. The body was sent to hospital morgue.
