A former Jubo League leader has been killed in an alleged gunfight with the police in Gazipur, just a couple of days after separate incidents saw two ruling party activists being killed in similar gunfights in Dhaka and Magura.
Saidul Islam, 35, the former president of Jubo League’s Shimultola unit in Dhaka’s Badda, was shot near Gazipur’s city’s Salna area in the late hours of Thursday. Two police officials of the Detective Branch – Yasin, 30, and Ujjal, 31 – were also injured in the incident and are now receiving treatment at the Gazipur Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Medical College Hospital.
Gazipur’s DB Inspector Amir Hossain said Saidul, who had two cases filed against him with the Gazipur police station, had been arrested on Thursday.
When the police took him to the Dokkhin Salna area for an arms recovery drive around 11:45pm, Saidul’s accomplices tried to snatch him from police custody and shot at law enforcers who fired back, Amir said.
The ex-Jubo League leader was hit in the thigh and rushed to the hospital where he later died, the inspector said.
Meanwhile, officer-in-charge of the Badda police station, MA Jalil, told the Dhaka Tribune that Saidul also had five cases against him at the station including two murder cases.
Ranjit Kumar Pal, the on-duty doctor at the hospital, said Saidul died while receiving primary treatment at the hospital. The deceased had wounds on both his thighs, Ranjit added.