Police have arrested a yaba trader who received bullet wounds during gunfight with law enforcers in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar.
Syed Nur, 26, belongs to the Rohingya community and is the son of late Md Sultan, who lived at an unauthorised Rohingya refugee camp at Leda in Nila union of Teknaf. He was arrested on Wednesday night.
Police and yaba traders fired at least 20 rounds at each other during the gun battle at Alikhali in Teknaf around 11:30pm on Wednesday. Police have claimed to recover a home gun, two rounds of fresh cartridges and 2,000 pieces of yaba pills from the scene.
The gunfight left Assistant Sub-inspector Joynal Abedin, police constable Jasim Uddin and Mahmudul Haque wounded. “Yaba traders began firing at us when a team of police led by me arrived on the scene after being informed about yaba trafficking,” said officer-in-charge of Teknaf Model police station Ranjit Kumar Barua.
“We responded by firing at the traders to protect us and the gunfight lasted for nearly half an hour,” he said.
Bullet-hit Syed Nur, who has a criminal record against him, was found at the scene when yaba traders finally backed off, Ranjit said, adding that he was sent to hospital for treatment.
