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Police in a drive arrested three alleged killers of a youth with a firearm and drugs in the city last night, police said.
The arrested persons are Nayon Sheikh, 30, Miraz Mridha, 25, and Jashim Howlader, 21, Deputy Police Commissioner (South) of Khulna Metropolitan Police Tazul Islam said in a press briefing on Wednesday (29 May).
Police also recovered a one-shooter gun, two bullets, two knives and huge drugs (hemp) from their possession, Tazul Islam said.
A team of police conducted a drive in the city's different areas last night and arrested them, he added.
Earlier, Md Rony Sarder, 24, son of late Abdur Rob Sarder, resident of East Rupsha area, was gunned down near Janakallyan Government Primary School in the city's south Tutpara area last evening.
Rony was killed in a previous enmity between the alleged killers centring distribution of drugs selling money, he said, quoting primary interrogation of arrestees.
Several cases were pending with different police stations, the DC South added.
Two cases were filed against them with Sadar Police Station in this connection.
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