An alleged rapist was killed in a “shootout” with Rapid Action Battalion in Kurushkul village in the early hours yesterday.

An alleged robber was killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members in Sharankhola range of the Sundarbans in Bagerhat early yesterday.

An alleged robber was killed in a "gunfight" with police, while another beaten to death by locals in Mymensingh's Trishal upazila early yesterday.

Three people were killed in separate 'shootout' incidents in Brahmanbaria district and Keraniganj Upazila on the outskirts of the capital early yesterday.

Four people including two suspected killers of ASP Mizanur Rahman are killed in separate “gunfights” in Dhaka and Kushtia.

An alleged robber is killed in a “gunfight” between police and a group of robbers at Satrakanda village in Jhalakathi district.

Two alleged criminals, including a charge-sheeted accused in Fulgazi upazila chairman Ekramul Haque murder case, were killed in “gunfights” with law enforcers in Feni and Rangpur yesterday.

The latest report of the human rights watchdog Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) is worrying. Apart from 68 people killed in “shootouts” and “crossfire” encounters with the police and other law enforcing agencies in the first six months of 2017, 44 persons were picked up, allegedly by people identifying themselves as members of the law enforcing agencies, according to ASK, during this period.

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.

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.

One man was killed and two others injured during “gunfights” with police in Narail, Jessore and Satkhira districts early yesterday.

An alleged outlaw was killed in a "gunfight" with police in the district's Tala upazila early yesterday.

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.

Four people, three of whom suspected militants, were killed in three separate “gunfights” between “their cohorts” and law enforcers in Dhaka, Rajshahi and Brahmanbaria yesterday.

A gunman fires shots early Sunday into a small crowd attending an open air concert in Austria's westernmost province, killing two people and wounding 11 others before shooting himself to death, police say.

Four alleged robbers are killed in what lawmen describe as gunfight during a joint crackdown of Rapid Action Battalion and Bangladesh Coast Guard in the Sarankhola range of the Sundarbans under Bagerhat district.

A suspected robber was killed during a “gunfight” with police in Kashundi bridge area on Magura-Dhaka highway early yesterday.

A suspected robber has been killed in what police described as gunfight on Dhaka-Magura road in the Magura Sadar upazila.