Extremism suspect killed in Lalbagh police raid

An extremism suspect was shot dead and eight others including three women were injured during a police raid at a house at Lalbagh in the capital Saturday night.
The Dhaka Metropolitan Police officials identified the 25-30-year deceased as Karim alias Ehtesham while Criminal Investigation Department was collecting his finger print to determine if he was missing youth Tehzeeb Karim or one Abdul Karim, wanted by police for assisting Gulshan café attack on July 1.
Three women, extremism suspects, with bullet or stab injuries, and cops — two with stabbing injuries — were rushed to Dhaka Medial College Hospital.
Of the three women, Khadiza was in most critical condition with stab injuries in the head while Shahmin sustained bullet injuries and Shayla sustained stabbing injuries, hospital’s director Mizanur Rahman told reporters.
He said that two constables — Lablu Jaman and Ram Chandra Bishwash — sustained stabbing injuries while pepper were thrown at three other constables — Shah Jahan Alia, Jahir Uddin and Mahtab Uddin.
Mizanur also said that they rearranged the security of the hospital.
Dhaka Metropolitan Police acting commissioner Shahabuddin Qureshi said that they were examining the identities of the deceased and the injured.
Police officials said that one of the three injured women was the wife of retired major Jahidul Islam, an extremism suspect killed in a raid in the capital’s Mirpur on September 2.
They said that they also rescued three children — a 10-year-old boy, a seven-year-old girl and a toddler — during the operation.
Shahabuddin said that based on information the police team knocked the first floor of the six-storey building on Lalbagh Road at Azimpur and sought information about the tenants.
The tenants took little preparation inside the rooms and carried out sudden attack on the cops, prompting the shooting and stabbing, he said.
He also said that they found two injured women inside the room and a man killed. Police chased and held another woman who tried to escape arrest, Shahabuddin added.
A senior police official said that a raid was supposed to be carried out around midnight and a small team of police mostly in plainclothes were there at about 7:30pm to inquire information about the tenants.
They came under sudden attack by the ‘extremists’, the official said, adding, ‘the extremists had firearms but they did not get enough time to load the weapons.’
The landlord of the building is Kaiser Ahmed, a well-known businessman in the neighbourhood. His manager Mobarak Hossain said that one Jamshed, son of late Moslem Uddin, of Rajshahi, introducing himself as a businessman rented the two-bed apartment on August 1 for a monthly rent of Tk 18,000.
Mobarak was picked by the police at about 11:00pm in the day while son— in-law Shabbir Uddin said they had collected information about the new tenant and was scheduled to submit to the police shortly.

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