Detectives of Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP) arrested five accused, including a top listed criminal, from parts of Dhaka, said the authority on Thursday. The top listed criminal is Md Nur Azim, 28, while his cohorts are Md Riazul Islam alias Dada Mia, 35, Faisal Ahmed Dwip, 25, Mohammad Rana Talukdar, 29, and Nayeem alias Md Kamruzzaman Nayeem, 25. Md Taimur Islam, Officer-in-Charge of Detective Branch at the KMP, said being tipped-off they conducted drives in Gulshan, Badda, Khilkhet, Bashundhara and other areas on Wednesday and arrested the five. Of the arrestees, Azim is the top listed criminal and accused in over 50 cases, including, killing, arms, drugs and others, he said. Read: Surveillance intensified as criminal activities rise at Kamrangirchar: DMP DC The KMP commissioner had earlier announced a bounty to arrest Azim, the OC said, adding that Azim stepped in crimes through a teen gang in 2017 in Khulna city. Moreover, the rest arrestees are accused of several cases, including extortion, ransom, human trafficking, arms, and robbery, the detective official said. The arrestees are supposed to be produced before a Khulna court on Thursday to take the next course of legal actions, he added.

A second police informer was hacked to death by yet unidentified attackers in Khulna’s Dighalia upazila on early Sunday.

A gang of yaba traders stabbed a police informer to death during a raid in Khulna city’s Bandabazar on Tuesday night.

Four senior police officers, including Superintendent of Police (SP) of Cox’s Bazar district, have been transferred on Wednesday.

Police arrested two students of Khulna University for their alleged ties to banned militant group ‘Neo JMB’ from Gollamari Khurshednagar in the city here early Saturday.

Robbers looted gold ornaments from a house killing an elderly woman at Navy-gate area in the city on Saturday morning.