Gulf Times – Qatar’s top-selling English daily newspaper - SriLanka/Bangladesh: "Bangladesh authorities have dispatched a team of policemen with sophisticated arms to the Hatia island in Noakhali district after over 35 people were suspected to have been killed in a gang war there, police in Dhaka said yesterday.
Noakhali police superintendent Harunur Rashid Hazari said: “We have launched a drive to arrest those attempting to create panic among the people.”
Hazari said, at least 100 policemen in four groups, led by Noakhali additional police superintendent Mahbubur Rashid, have been sent to the area.
He also said elite security force Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) will join the drive soon.
But the police and the Noakhali district administration could not confirm the identities of the dead and wounded.
Noakhali deputy commissioner Sirajul Islam said: “We are not sure about the dead and wounded because the area is hard to reach.”
Hatia island sub-district executive officer Harunur Rashid said information about the killings, abductions, attack, loots and arsons were being collected.
“We are maintaining communication with relevant departments to take the next step,” he added.
Sources said members of a gang, headed by one Nasir, were engaged in a series of gunfights in the area on October 13 with members of Sikder gang, Munsia gang and Gias gang over the control of the area.
The Nasir gang succeeded in beating others and carried out the massacre"
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