A key suspect in the murder of publisher Shahjahan Bachchu has died in an alleged shootout with police in Munshiganj’s Sirajdikhan upazila.
Law-enforcement agencies arrested 34-year-old Abdur Rahman, a JMB militant, from a Gazipur hideout four days ago.
Police raided the upazila’s Balurchar area around 1 am Thursday, based on confessions from Rahman.
When the raid was underway, Rahman’s accomplices opened fire on the police, forcing the law enforcers to fight back triggering a gun battle, according to Munshiganj Superintendent of Police Zayedul Alam.
As police took Rahman to the scene during the raid, he was caught in the line of fire. He died instantly in a hail of bullets.
But his accomplices managed to flee, reports bdnews24.
On June 11, four unidentified assailants on two motorcycles gunned down Bachchu in the upazila.
The 65-year-old former general secretary of the Communist Party of Bangladesh’s Munshiganj district unit was a publisher of Bishaka Prokashoni. He was known as a free-thinking writer in his ancestral village Kakaldi.