Youth’s body recovered after ‘gunfight’

Police recovered the body of a young man following what they called a gunfight between two groups at Kabita Chattar point in Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday, reports UNB.

The deceased is Nurul Kabir, son of Abdul Karim at Dakhshin Rumalia Chara of the municipality, news agency UNB reports.
Being tipped-off that two factions of criminals were involved in a gunfight at dawn, police rushed to the spot and recovered the body in the morning, said Farid Uddin Khandakar, officer-in-charge of Cox's Bazar sadar model police station.
Police also recovered a locally-made LG gun, 400 pieces of Yaba pills and three bullet shells from the spot.
Nurul Kabir was accused in four cases including in the killing of a college girl on 10 November as the prime one, added the OC.
The body was sent to a Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital's morgue for autopsy.
Prothom Alo, however, could not verify the law enforcement’s version of the incident independently as no version of it was available immediately either from any witness or from any member of the victim’s family.