Police have arrested three people directly involved in an attack on the Joydebpur Junction railway police outpost in Gazipur, in an attempt to snatch two arrested drug dealers.
They were arrested in raids on various places in Gazipur city on Thursday night, 15 October.
The arrested are Shuvo Ahmed, 20, Yasin, 26, and Sarowar Hossain Hridoy, 23.
Police said that on Thursday afternoon, acting on a tip-off about drug dealing in the Joydebpur railway junction area, railway police arrested two people, one of them a woman, with yaba pills. They were taken to the outpost and held in a room. Shortly afterwards a group of drug dealers armed with local weapons and machetes attacked the outpost, hacking wildly at the locked room to try to snatch the detainees. Railway police TSI Nurul Islam and constable Ashikur Rahman were injured trying to stop them and were treated in hospital.
Railway police filed a case over the attack on Thursday night. Gazipur Sadar police station, the Detective Branch (DB) and railway police then arrested the three directly involved in a joint operation.
Faruk Hossain, in charge of the Joydebpur railway police outpost, said: “A case has been filed with Kamalapur railway police station over the attack. Sadar police, DB and railway police jointly arrested three people. Legal action against them is under way.”
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