A 15-year-old schoolboy was shot dead and two others were wounded in 'accidental discharge' from weapons of Rapid Action Battalion personnel when a group said to be of drug peddlers jostled with them at Fatullah in Narayanganj on Tuesday night.
The deceased, Shubho, was a student of Class IX of Aliganj High School at Pagla and son of day-labourer Abu Sayed.
Shubho's younger brother Sohag, 10, a Class III student of the Pagla Government Primary School, and Badal, 15, a passerby, were wounded.
Officials of RAB 11, which has jurisdiction over the area, said that a plainclothes team of RAB 10 on information raided a marketplace at Pagla Boubazar about 8:30pm and challenged the group which included Arif, Sohel, Monir, Sumon and Ali Hossain.
The RAB 10 operation officer, assistant superintendent of police Fazle Rabbi, told New Age that the group had confined battalion personnel and stabbed some of them.
When they were jostling, bullets were 'accidentally discharged.' Three were wounded, Rabbi said.
Asked how the passerby was wounded as the operation was conducted against group, the RAB 10 officer said they were still investigating the matter.
The wounded Shubho, Sohag and Badal were sent to Khanpur hospital where Shubho was pronounced dead.
Badal and Sohag were admitted to the hospital and Sohag, wounded in the right leg, was later shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital at night, hospital sources said.
The battalion official, however, said that two of their personnel were stabbed during the jostle and none of the group was injured.
Witnesses said that there was no 'gunfight' but a sudden attack on group.
Two suspected of being involved in drug peddling were arrested after the incident, Rabbi said.
The Fatullah police officer-in-charge, Ainul Haque, told New Age that they were investigating whether Shubho was killed by the 'accidental discharge' from RAB weapons or by miscreants.
Source: New Age
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