A 17-year-old militant who was arrested this week while carrying out a failed assassination attempt on a Hindu lecturer in southwestern Bangladesh was killed overnight in what police claimed to be a “shootout”.
“Golam Faizullah Fahim’s cohorts fired gunshots as he was guiding us (police) to a hideout of theirs...He died in crossfire as we retaliated,” Madaripur’s Superintendent of Police Sarwar Hossain told PTI over phone.
Another official said police took Fahim to an area on the outskirts of the district town last evening where the shootout occurred. He was injured and declared dead when brought to a hospital after the “shootout”.
The surprise shootout came a day after police secured a court order to interrogate Fahim in custody in connection with the murder attempt on Ripan Chakraborty, 50, a mathematics lecturer of a Government university college in Madaripur.