PM Hasina lambasts her arch rival Khaleda Zia for what she says “shedding crocodile tears” for militant suspect Golam Faizullah Fahim who lost his life in an alleged crossfire a day after he was captured by locals during a murder attempt on a teacher in Madaripur. Khaleda's criticism proves that BNP-Jamaat has link to secret killings, the premier says.

A suspected robber is killed in a “gunfight” with police at Purba Shakharia in Banaripara upazila of Barisal.

Cops never indulge in extrajudicial killings in the name of “crossfire”, but if under attack, they open fire in self defence, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Asaduzzaman Mia yesterday.

Civil Aviation Minister Rashed Khan Menon yesterday rightly described the death of militant suspects in so-called "crossfire" and "gun battle" as weakness and failure of the law-enforcement agencies.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir denounces the government for the recent incidents like “encounters” and says those have been done only to conceal facts and to suppress the political oppositions.

Two recent deaths in so-called ‘crossfires’ have raised a lot of questions in the public sphere. These deaths have also put the role of the police and the whole criminal system on the dock.

Two people allegedly involved in the killing of AK Azad, a newly elected Union Parishad chairman, were killed in a “shootout” with police in Joypurhat early yesterday.

Police claimed that they arrested seven robbers after a “gunfight” with them in Gendaria area of Dhaka that left four people including a police official injured.

Alleged robber is killed in a “gunfight” between his cohorts and police in Lohagara upazila of Narail.

An alleged member of outlawed Purba Bangla Communist Party was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with law enforcers in Tala upazila of Satkhira.

Three people including an alleged operative of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers in the capital and Gaibandha early yesterday.

An alleged operative of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and two suspected hijackers have been killed in separate "gunfights" with law enforcers in Gaibandha and Dhaka.

The main fugitive accused of last year's Bogra Shia mosque attack in Bogra was killed in a “gunfight” with police at Shibganj of Bogra early yesterday.

Police say these two men, killed in alleged gunfight with detectives, said to have taken part in the murder of Rajshahi University professor AFM Rezaul Karim Siddiquee and the bomb attack on a Shia mosque in Bogra.

An alleged drug trader is killed in a reported gunfight with law enforcers in Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat.

An alleged robber was killed in a “gunfight” with police in Muladi upazila of Barisal.

An alleged robber has been killed in a ‘gunfight’ between his cohorts and police at Shashai on the Dhaka-Shylhet highway.

An alleged criminal is killed in a “gunfight” with police in Laxmipur Sadar Upazila early today.

An alleged robber has been killed in a “gunfight” between his associates and police in Mirpur upazila of Kushtia.

An alleged robber gang leader was killed in a "gunfight" between his cohorts and Rapid Action Battalion in Chandpai range of the