Ismail, identified as a drug dealer by police, was killed on Monday night in Gazipur.
“A Rab team was conducting an anti-narcotics raid in the river port area when drug dealers opened fire on it,” said Kamal Hossain, the officer-in-charge of Tongi East Police Station.
“Ismail was killed during the gunfight,” he said, adding that a smallarm, bullets and several thousand yaba pills were recovered from the spot.
In Chattogram, two suspected robbers were killed in Sitakunda upazila on early Tuesday.
Rab-7 Assistant Director (Media) Masuqur Rahman said one of their teams went to the area to foil a robbery bid on the highway.
“The robbers opened fire as soon as our team reached Chhoto Kumira around 2am. After the skirmish, bodies of two robbers, firearms and bullets were recovered,” he claimed.
The identities of the deceased could not be known yet.