A leader of a pirate gang in Noakhali was killed during an alleged “gunfight” with police on Monday night, while one of his associates was beaten to death by a mob at Ali Bazar in Hatiya.
The pirate leader Emran and his cohort Jasim were fugitives who escaped from police custody earlier on Monday morning.
Police managed to track down the fugitives at Hatiya’s Ali Bazar on Monday night, where a gunfight allegedly ensued between police and the fugitives, leaving Emran dead on the spot and five police personnel injured.
Meanwhile, agitated locals caught Jasim and lynched him to death.
Police recovered five rounds of bullet, a rifle and five explosives from the area.
Earlier on Sunday night, Emran and Jasim were arrested from Bayezid Bostami in Chittagong, from where they were later sent to the Sudharam police station in Maijdee.
The police said both men complained of stomach aches at night, so station officer-in-charge Jahidul Islam Roni sent them to Noakhali General Hospital on Monday morning with two constables on a CNG-run auto rickshaw. On the way to the hospital, they pushed the two constables out of the vehicle and fled.
Noakhali Police Superintendent Md Anisur Rahman “closed” the two constables who accompanied Imran and Jasim in connection with their escape.
The SP said Emran was a notorious pirate leader who had 14 cases filed against him with the Hatiya police station. The bodies of the deceased have been sent to the Noakhali General Hospital for autopsy.
