The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Nine suspected robbers were killed in a mass beating and gunfight between robbers and the elite force RAB at Bara Adimpur village at Singra upazila in Natore on Wednesday night.

Police said local people surrounded the alleged robbers numbering twelve

when they assembled at Bara Adimpur Primary School for committing robbery at about 2:00am.

Tipped off, patrol teams of police and elite-force RAB rushed to the spot. Sensing their presence, the robbers opened fire on the law-enforcers prompting them to fire back. In the gunfight, three robbers sustained fatal bullet injuries.

The villagers had chased down the suspected robbers. Some of them jumped into a nearby pond and some others fled the scene.The angry mob caught hold of eight robbers and lynched six of them.

Two of the injured robbers died at the Singra Upazila Health Complex soon after admission.

The law enforcers recovered a bullet-ridden body from a pond.The law enforcers also recovered some firearms from the spot. Senior police and RAB officials later visited the spot.