The incident took place at around 2:45am on Monday near Hazaribagh Modhu City in Dhaka, said RAB-2 Company Commander Police Super Md Mohiuddin Farooqi. Mohiuddin Farooqi said that a tea-laden covered van of Ispahani Ltd went missing about five days back from Sreemangal. Besides, RAB also received the report of a hijacked Roxy Paints vehicle, he added. “RAB was investigating the two cases when information arrived that the hijackers were coming to Dhaka with the tea-laden covered van to sell it in Lalbagh.”“The van hit a pillar in front of Modhu City when RAB personnel tried to stop it. Two persons were killed in the gunfight while the rest fled the scene.”Besides the hijacked covered van, RAB recovered a foreign pistol and four rounds of bullets from the spot, he said.

Source: bd News24 May 20, 2019 08:15 UTC