Drug peddler killed in Rangpur ‘gunfight’

Staff Correspondent, Rangpur: A suspected drug trader was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with police in Haragach area of the district’s Kaunia upazila early Tuesday.

The deceased was identified as Shajahan Hossain alias Dabirul, 50, son of Sohrab Hossain of Tengtari village in Kaunia upazila.

Shajahan was accused in several cases, said Saifur Rahman, additional superintendent of police adding that law enforcers recovered a pistol, 226 Yaba tablets and 173 bottle of Phensidyl syrup.

 

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