(Dhaka) A teenage Islamist Terrorist 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.
Golam Faizullah Fahim, 19, who was in custody for
questioning, was killed when officers came under attack in a farmland area
after he led them to the area in search of his Islamist 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 told AFP.
Ramadan death toll is now at 3,483
