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Firearms seized

CHITTAGONG, Oct 5: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-7 recovered five firearms from Hossain Ahmed Bari area under Moheshkhali Upazila in Cox's bazaar district on Friday night. Being informed, a team of the RAB raided the area and recovered one .303 rifle, three Single Barrel guns and one LG gun in an abandoned state. None was arrested in this connection, reports UNB.

Dacoit beaten to death in Rangpur

RANGPUR, Oct 5: A dacoit of a gang was beaten to death and another seriously injured while they were committing a dacoity in a night coach at Aloakuri Mour Thursday morning, police said. A band of eight to 10 armed dacoits stopped a Dimla-bound night coach of Anita Enterprise from Dhaka by putting a barricade at a point on the Dhaka-Panchagarh highway under Sadar Upazila in Rangpur at 4.15 a.m. After forcing their way into the coach, the dacoits beat the passengers mercilessly, snatched money, mobile phone sets and valuables, reports UNB.

Housewife electrocuted in Chittagong

CHITTAGONG, Oct 5: A housewife was electrocuted at Sabujbagh of Halishahor thana in the city in members, police said. The victim was identified as Shaheda Khatun, 25, wife of Mohammad Shajahan of Sabujbagh under Halishahar thana. Police said Shaheda died on the spot as she came in contact with a live electric wire at her house. An unnatural death (UD) case was lodged with Halishahar police, reports UNB.

Clothes distributed in Jmalpur

JAMALPUR, Oct 5: Jamalpur Thana Police distributed clothes among the poor people on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, on the thana premises last Monday. Police Super Khandaker Golam Faruk distributed sarees and lungis among the poor people. The clothes were purchased

Newly married housewife commits suicide in Pirganj

RANGPUR, Oct 5: A newly married housewife allegedly committed suicide by taking poison at her father's house in village Baro Majidpur under Pirganj upazila in the district on Thursday night. Quoting local people, police said, Piyari Begum, 20, of the village was married with one Mizanur Rahman of nearby Babonpur village against her will some eight months ago and she had been refusing to go to her in-law's house since the marriage. Being pressurised by her parents to go to her husband's house, Piyari Begum took poison at home on Thursday night and died soon after, reports UNB.

2 killed in separate incidents in Ctg

CHITTAGONG, Oct 5: Two children were killed in separate incidents in the district on Monday, Police said. Reshmi Akter, 12, a maid of Didarul Alam, was injured falling from the roof of a four-storey building owned by Alam at Khulshi in the city on Friday morning. Alam brought her to Chittagong Medical College Hospital where doctors declared her dead. In another incident, Rubi Akter, 10, of Madambibir Hat area under Sitakundu Upazila in the district, was critically injured when a passenger bus knocked her down near their house in the afternoon. Locals brought her to Al Amin Hospital Pvt. Limited, where she died after admission, reports UNB.