drug peddlers
3 killed in ‘gunfights’
Two alleged Rohingya drug peddlers and a murder suspect were killed in two separate gunfights with members of Border Guard Bangladesh and police in Cox’s Bazar and Mymensingh early yesterday.
‘Drug peddler’ killed in Rajshahi ‘gunfight’
A suspected drug peddler is killed in a reported gunfight between two rival groups of drug peddlers in Bagha upazila of Rajshahi.
Three ‘drug dealers’ killed in ‘gunfights’
Three alleged drug peddlers were killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers in Dhaka and Cox’s Bazar yesterday.
Three ‘drug dealers’ killed in ‘shootout’
Three alleged drug peddlers, including two Rohingyas, were killed in two separate “gunfights” with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Rapid Action Battalion in Cox’s Bazar yesterday and the day before, while another peddler was shot and injured while trying to flee from police in Lalmonirhat on Sunday.
4 'criminals' killed in 'gunfights'
Four alleged criminals were killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers and drug peddlers in Dhaka, Chattogram, Meherpur and Cox's Bazar yesterday.
3 suspected drug peddlers shot dead
Three alleged drug peddlers, including a Rohingya woman, were killed in “gunfights” with police and Border Guard Bangladesh in Teknaf upazila early yesterday.
Five more killed in 'gunfights'
Two alleged drug peddlers and three suspected robbers were killed in three separate “gunfights” with members of Border Guard Bangladesh and police in Cox's Bazar and Munshiganj yesterday.
'Crystal meth' lab busted for 1st time
The Department of Narcotics Control claimed to have busted a narcotics manufacturing laboratory and seized a consignment of two types of new drugs, including crystal methamphetamine, from the capital's Jhigatola area yesterday.
2 more 'drug peddlers' killed in 'shootout'
Two suspected drug peddlers were killed in a “gunfight” with Rab at Teknaf upazila in Cox's Bazar yesterday.
Moral Dilemma of the drug wars
News about security forces mowing down several dozen “drug dealers” in the last two weeks has got many of us writhing in moral agony over “shootouts” happening on an increasing tempo. True, drug abuse is highly detrimental to our youth and surely drug dealers need to be checked vigorously, but committing the state-sanctioned “ultimate sin” to rid ourselves of some low-level operatives is quite disturbing, to say the least.
‘Drug dealers being killed in encounters, it’s not extra-judicial killing’, says Quader
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says drug peddlers are being killed in “encounters” with law enforcers and these are not cases of “extra-judicial killings”.
Two killed in 'gunfight' with Khulna cops
Two suspected drug peddlers were killed in a “gunfight” with police in Khulna yesterday while another man was injured in a separate incident.