Separate incidents of shooting have left two suspected criminals dead in Dhaka. In the capital’s Rampura, a man died in what is being described by police as a ‘shootout’, hours after being detained with firearms on Wednesday. The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) claims a 45-year-old man named Kamal Parvez was arrested on Wednesday afternoon while trying to mug a woman at Khilgaon. He was found to possess two firearms—a revolver and a pistol along with ammunition—said RAB-3 Operations Officer Abul Karim. “Later at night, a RAB team took him along on raid at Rampura. A shootout erupted when his accomplices opened fire. A bullet hit Kamal (Parvez) during the shooting,” he said. Kamal was taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital where he was declared dead, added the elite police unit’s officer. In another incident, this one in the Turag area, a man, who the RAB claims was involved in robbery and woman trafficking, died in the early hours of Thursday. The incident occurred around 2am near a check post when, said RAB 1 Commander Tuhin Mohammad Masud. The man was hit during a ‘shootout’ between the RAB patrol and robbers. He was taken to a hospital where the doctors declared him dead, he said adding that locals identified him as ‘Nazrul’. RAB said they seized a pistol with ammunition from the shooting scene.—bdnews24.com
