Police claimed that a smuggler was gunned down in an alleged shootout between his accomplices and law-enforcers at Gozaria Shikari village in Sadar upazila on Tuesday night.
The victim is Manirul Islam, 27, son of Md Rajab Ali, a resident of Kaliani village of the upazila, had been involved in smuggling for long, says police.
Sadar police station OC (investigation) Nasir Uddin confirmed the incident, saying a team of DB police, on a tip-off, intercepted a microbus carrying some smugglers along with phensidyles to the district town around 10:30pm from the Indo-Bangla frontier Boikari area.
At one stage, the smugglers swooped on the law enforcers triggering a fierce clash that left ASI Aminul Islam and constable Abdur Rahim critically injured and then the former was admitted to the district hospital.
In retaliation, the plainclothes police fired five shots at the smugglers to bring the situation under control and moved away from the spot with the injured.
Afterwards, a police team led by SP Chowdhury Manjurul Kabir started a drive in search of the smugglers and found Monirul laying on the scene holding a firearms and whisked off him to Satkhira Sadar Hospital where duty doctors declared him dead.
During the clash, the ASI sustained severe stab injuries while a hand of the constable was broken.
