4 people killed in Jessore gunfights

4 people killed in Jessore gunfights

Jessore, Jan 20 (Just News) : Four suspected robbers were killed in separate ‘gunfights’ with their cohorts at Sadar and Jhikargachha upazilas in Jessore early Saturday.

Identities of the deceased could not be known yet.

On information about a gunfight between two groups of robbers, a team of police conducted a drive in Nagarpur area of Sadar upazila around 2:20am and recovered bullet-hit bodies of two robbers, said Azmal Huda, officer-in-charge of Sadar police station.

Police also recovered two locally made guns, two bullets, and sharp weapons including four machetes.

In Jhikargachha, police recovered the bodies of two suspected robbers, believed to be killed in a gunfight with their cohorts, from village Chapatola around 3:00am.

A foreign made pistol, two bullets and four machetes were recovered from the spot, said Masud Karim, officer-in-charge of Jhikargachha police station.

(Just News/ot/1818h)