A leader of a robber’s gang was killed in a gunfight with police at Hatiya upazila in Noakhali early Friday.
Police said the deceased Yunus was shot dead around 1am, while five police were injured in the gunfight.
Noakhali Police Super Anisur Raman said in order to catch the robbers, police raided the Kalam char at Hatiya around 1am, but sensing the presence of police, the robber group opened fire at police.
Then the police fired back and Yunus died on the spot after receiving bullets. During the gunfight, Kalam Chowdhury, leader of a robber gang in Bhola, and Emran Asraf, leader of a pirates’ gang of Hatiya, were with Yunus.
After the incident, the police recovered a rifle and 12 round cartridges, while they arrested Yunus’s wife Asma Begum, 23, and a member of Yunus’s robbery team Ismail Hossain, 22, from the spot, while other members of the gang ran away.
Khorshed Alam, officer-in-charge of Hatiya police station, said there were several cases against Yunus, including robbery, extortion, murder and kidnapping.
Accusing Emran Asraf and Kalam Chowdhury, the police lodged a case in Hatiya police station, while the law enforcers sent the deceased’s body to Noakhali General Hospital for post mortem.
