Comilla: A suspected drug dealer was killed in a “gunfight” with police at Nagolkot upazila early yesterday.
The deceased was identified as Mehedi Hasan,28, son of Ekramul Haque of Alipur of Raikot union in Nagolkot.
With this, at least 208 suspected drug traders were killed since the anti-narcotics drive began on May 4. Most of them were killed in so-called shootouts involving police and Rab.
Nazrul Islam, officer-in-charge of Nagolkot police, said the shootout took place as a team of law enforcers raided Olipur area on information that two drug dealers went there to sell drugs.
Sensing the presence of police, drug dealers attacked them with machete and started shooting at the police. The law enforcers also returned fire, triggering a “gunfight”.
At one stage, the police found Mehedi with bullet injuries and rushed him to Comilla Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead, the OC added.
He claimed constable Ali was chopped by machetes in the leg and had to take 35 stitches for the wound.
The police seized a bloodstained machete, an LG gun, two cartridges and 1,000 pieces of Yaba pills from the spot.https://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/another-drug-dealer-killed-gunfight-1616515
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