Two killed in Dhaka ‘shootout’ with RAB
Dhaka: Two people were killed in a reported gunfight with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) at Rampura in Dhaka in the early hours of Wednesday.
Identities of the deceased could not be known.
The Rampura police Officer-in-charge (OC) Proloy Kumar Saha said the gunfight took place between a group of miscreants and members of RAB 3 at Balur Math near Bank Colony in Rampura at about 2:30am. Later, two bullet-hit men were recovered from the spot. The injured were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared them dead.
The OC said RAB also recovered two pistols, two magazines, and five bullets.
RAB claimed four of its members were also injured during the shootout.