The incident occurred in the town's Chadmari area on Monday night, said Kamrul Hassan, sub-inspector of the district's Detective Branch of Police, or DB. The dead was identified only as 'Biplob', 31, who is listed as a 'top drug dealer', named in 14 narcotics-related cases, according to police. SI Kamrul said, a DB unit launched a raid on information that a gang of drug peddlers had gathered in the Chadmari area. Police retaliated, forcing the drug peddlers to flee the scene. Police recovered a gun from the scene, said the SI, adding two policemen were also injured in the incident.

Source: bd News24 July 16, 2019 04:41 UTC