Two alleged Rohingya drug peddlers and a murder suspect were killed in two separate gunfights with members of Border Guard Bangladesh and police in Cox’s Bazar and Mymensingh early yesterday.

A suspected drug peddler is killed in a reported gunfight between two rival groups of drug peddlers in Bagha upazila of Rajshahi.

Three alleged drug peddlers were killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers in Dhaka and Cox’s Bazar yesterday.

Three alleged drug peddlers, including two Rohingyas, were killed in two separate “gunfights” with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Rapid Action Battalion in Cox’s Bazar yesterday and the day before, while another peddler was shot and injured while trying to flee from police in Lalmonirhat on Sunday.

Four alleged criminals were killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers and drug peddlers in Dhaka, Chattogram, Meherpur and Cox's Bazar yesterday.

Three alleged drug peddlers, including a Rohingya woman, were killed in “gunfights” with police and Border Guard Bangladesh in Teknaf upazila early yesterday.

Two alleged drug peddlers and three suspected robbers were killed in three separate “gunfights” with members of Border Guard Bangladesh and police in Cox's Bazar and Munshiganj yesterday.

The Department of Narcotics Control claimed to have busted a narcotics manufacturing laboratory and seized a consignment of two types of new drugs, including crystal methamphetamine, from the capital's Jhigatola area yesterday.

Two suspected drug peddlers were killed in a “gunfight” with Rab at Teknaf upazila in Cox's Bazar yesterday.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members detain an alleged drug peddler along with 500 bottles of Phensidyl from Dhaka’s Dhamrai upazila.

Two young men were shot dead early yesterday hours after they were arrested in Teknaf.

Teknaf police have again claimed yesterday that two drug dealers were shot dead when police intervened in a fight between armed gangs.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrests seven alleged drug peddlers in Rajshahi and three of them were sentenced to different terms of jail each by a mobile court on charge of taking drugs and drug trading.

They made a hidden chamber on top of the cab of a lorry, concealed a large consignment of yaba inside it, welded them shut and painted over it so that it would not raise suspicion.

Three suspected drug peddlers are killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion in Chittagong city.

Two suspected drug peddlers are killed in a reported gunfight between their cohorts and police at Bagmara in Khulna.

Police recovered two bullet-hit bodies from Monirampur upazila in the district early yesterday.

Detectives arrest six persons including two Rohingyas on charge of supplying yaba tablets by ingesting them in capsule form.

Twelve more suspected drug peddlers are killed during the ongoing countrywide “war on drugs” taking the death toll to at least 96 during the last 13 days.

News about security forces mowing down several dozen “drug dealers” in the last two weeks has got many of us writhing in moral agony over “shootouts” happening on an increasing tempo. True, drug abuse is highly detrimental to our youth and surely drug dealers need to be checked vigorously, but committing the state-sanctioned “ultimate sin” to rid ourselves of some low-level operatives is quite disturbing, to say the least.