Chased By Rab: 'Drug peddler' drowns in Rajshahi
A suspected drug peddler jumped into a pond and drowned as he tried to run from Rapid Action Battalion in Rajshahi's Tanore upazila early yesterday.
The dead Sayem Uddin, 30, of Poba upazila, was riding a motorcycle with another man on Darusha-Tanore road around 4:00am when Rab personnel, acting on a tip-off, signalled them to stop, said Maj Ashraful Islam of Rab-5.
The two bikers stopped and began to run in different directions abandoning the bike, he added.
Chased by the law enforcers Sayem, at one point, jumped into a pond and the other man Selim Reza, 26, of Poba upazila got caught, he said.
About an hour later, Rab men along with locals rescued Sayem from the pond. He “alive, but unconscious”, the officer claimed, adding that they took him to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.
Rab found 8kg of marijuana in a bag tied to the motorcycle, Ashraful said.
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