Nine more people have been killed in what security forces described as gunfights as the government expanded its anti-drug crackdown across the country.
Law-enforcement agencies said they engaged in gun battles with drug traffickers in eight districts overnight on Tuesday.
Among the dead, two people have been killed in Kushtia in an alleged shootout with police while one person died in Jamalpur, Cumilla, Lalmonirhat, Thakurgaon and Rangpur each. One died in Feni and Gaibandha each in a shootout with the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB).
The RAB and police said all of them were involved in drug trafficking, with some of them named in multiple narcotics cases, according to a bdnews24 report.
At least 35 people have been killed in ‘shootouts’ by law-enforcement agencies throughout the country over the last five days.
Although they disapprove the prevalence of drug in the country, rights organisations expressed their anxiety over the killings and the way the law-enforcement agencies are combating drug trafficking.
They demanded an end to these extrajudicial killings.