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DHAKA, (APP/AFP): A teenage suspected Islamist
militant being held in custody in Bangladesh was shot dead
Saturday in a gunfight, police said, days after he allegedly
hacked and critically wounded a Hindu lecturer.
Police said Golam Faizullah Fahim, 19, who was in
custody for questioning, was killed when officers under
attack in a farmland area after taking him to a river
in search of his associates.
“Miscreants fired at the police van as we came near
a jute farm. A gunfight ensued. After the gunfight we saw
Fahim was shot and wounded. He died after we brought him to
a hospital,” Sarwar Hossain, police chief of Madaripur where
the shooting took place, told AFP.