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Rab personnel, trying to stop truck carrying drugs, gets run over and dies
Idris Molla. Photo: Collected Star Digital Report Star Digital Report
A Rab personnel was killed after a truck belonging to suspected drug peddlers ran him over while he was trying to intercept the vehicle for checking in Mymensingh early today.
The deceased Idris Molla, 28, a constable of Bangladesh police, was deputed to the elite force in May 2019.
The incident took place when a Rab-1 team set up a check point in Porabari area in Gazipur around 5:30 am on information that a consignment of 30 kg cannabis was being taken to Mymensingh, Lt Col Ashique Billah, Rab s legal and media wing director, said.
Truck carrying drugs runs over, kills Rab man Staff Correspondent Staff Correspondent
A member of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) was killed in Mymensingh early yesterday as a truck run over him while he was chasing the vehicle.
According to the law enforcers, the truck was carrying cannabis.
The dead Idris Molla, 28, a constable of Bangladesh Police was deputed to the elite force in May 2019.
Lt Col Ashique Billah, director (legal and media wing) of Rab, said the incident took place in the district s Bhaluka upazila.
A team of Rab-1 set up a checkpoint in Gazipur s Porabari area around 5:30am on information that a consignment of 30kgs cannabis was being transported to Mymensingh, he said.