Rab and police said five “criminals”, including two “drug traders”, were killed in “gunfights” with the law enforcers in Dhaka and two other districts early yesterday.

Two suspected drug peddlers are killed in separate incidents of gunfights with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Narayanganj and Dhaka.

Ten more alleged drug peddlers were killed in “gunfights” across the country yesterday, bringing the tally of “shootout” victims to 52 during the anti-narcotics drives by law enforcers in the last 10 days.

Two people, including a fugitive under death sentence, were killed in “shootouts” between law enforcers and “suspected criminals” in the capital and Narayanganj early yesterday.

A teenage boy was killed in a “gunfight” with police in the capital's Wari early yesterday.

A man, earlier identified by police as a suspect in the murder of Banani manpower businessman, is killed in a “gunfight” with detectives in Dhaka few hours after he got caught and handed over to police for allegedly killing one of his associates.