Jessore Correspondent :
A man whom the police claimed to be a robber was killed in a ‘gunfight’ between them at 2:30am on Saturday. But family members said he was picked up earlier by four motorbike riders.
The deceased was identified as Faruk Hossain, 42, son of Abu Bakr from Daulatdihi village under Kotwali Police Station.
Ilias Hossain, Officer-in-Charge of Kotwali Police Station, said that an
unidentified ‘robber’ died at Khulna Medical College Hospital after he received bullet wounds in a ‘gunfight’ between a gang of robbers and the police at the time of committing robbery at Kanaitala on the Rajarhat- Chuknagar Road at 2:30am.
He was first taken to Jessore Medical College Hospital and then shifted to Khulna, the OC added. He succumbed to his injuries there.
Taslima Begum, wife of the victim, told a group of newsmen that her husband was a farmer.
He was abducted by four persons identifying themselves as members of police when he was cleaning jute fibers in the nearby river from their residence at around 11am on Friday. ‘The police men came there by two motorbikes’.
A man whom the police claimed to be a robber was killed in a ‘gunfight’ between them at 2:30am on Saturday. But family members said he was picked up earlier by four motorbike riders.
The deceased was identified as Faruk Hossain, 42, son of Abu Bakr from Daulatdihi village under Kotwali Police Station.
Ilias Hossain, Officer-in-Charge of Kotwali Police Station, said that an
unidentified ‘robber’ died at Khulna Medical College Hospital after he received bullet wounds in a ‘gunfight’ between a gang of robbers and the police at the time of committing robbery at Kanaitala on the Rajarhat- Chuknagar Road at 2:30am.
He was first taken to Jessore Medical College Hospital and then shifted to Khulna, the OC added. He succumbed to his injuries there.
Taslima Begum, wife of the victim, told a group of newsmen that her husband was a farmer.
He was abducted by four persons identifying themselves as members of police when he was cleaning jute fibers in the nearby river from their residence at around 11am on Friday. ‘The police men came there by two motorbikes’.
