BANGLADESH NEWS
Mob lynched five robbers during a shootout and two bullet-hit robbers were arrested by police at the mouth of Meghna River in Charfashion upazila on Tuesday afternoon.
Identity of the deceased and the injured could not be ascertained immediately.
Police also recovered 9 different types of firearms, 18 bullets, 24 sharp weapons and a trawler from the pirates' den.
A contingent of police, lead by Charfashion thana OC Reaz Hossain, conducted simultaneous drives at remote Dhalchar and Bhashanchar, known as pirates` hideouts, at 12 noon following secret information that a gang of robbers was preparing to commit robbery in the area.
Sensing police presence the pirates attempted to escape opening fire on police who retaliated triggering a 1-and-half-hour gunfight.
During the gunfire people from surrounding villages chased a gang of fleeing dacoits and managed to capture five of them and beat them black and blue, leaving them dead on the spot at about 1:30 pm.
After the end of the gunfight police conducted a search in the area and recovered two bullet-wounded robbers in senseless condition.
They also recovered six locally-made rifles, three .22 bore foreign-made rifles, 18 rounds of bullets, 24 large sharp weapons, mobile sets and a trawler from the two spots.
OC Reaz Hossain claimed that the five robbers died in mob beating and the two bullet-hit bandits were sent to the Upazila Health Complex.
He said that the bandits fired at least 24 rounds of gun shots at police who returned 10 rounds in `self defence`.
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