Years of relative quiet in Sinaloa, a predominantly agricultural state home to the notorious cartel of the same name, were shattered in September when two rival factions of the drug gang went to war.

The fighting follows the dramatic arrest on US soil in July of Sinaloa Cartel co-founder Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, who claimed he had been kidnapped in Mexico and delivered into US custody against his will.

Two alleged drug traders are killed in separate “gunfights” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Kushtia and Narayanganj early today.

Protests against a surge of killings are unleashed since Rodrigo Duterte became president of the Philippines and pledged to wage war on drug dealers and crush widespread addiction to methamphetamine.