Mehedi Hasan Ajibor, a prime accused in the much-talked-about case of shooting of a pregnant woman that also injured her baby, was killed after an alleged gunfight between law enforcers and his cohorts in Magura town early yesterday.
The gunfight ensued when the police were on a drive to arrest Ajibor, 35, in Doarpar area of the town around 1am, Magura Assistant Police Superintendent Shudarshan Kumar Roy said.
The law enforcers gave their customary version of an alleged gunfight. “As we conducted the drive to arrest Ajibor and his accomplices, they opened fire on the police. In retaliation, the law enforcers shot at them and later found Ajubor’s bullet-hit body on the spot. His cohorts fled the scene.”
The ASP said that locals had recovered his body from the area around 2am.
Ruling party supporter Ajibor was named as the second accused in a case filed over the July 23 incident when the Awami League supporters clashed among them killing a person and injuring pregnant Nazma. She had to undergo surgery immediately to save the baby, whose body was pierced with the bullet.
The mother and the newborn were first treated separately. Condition of the baby, undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital for around two weeks, is now stated to be stable.
Over a dozen people have so far been arrested in the case.
