GAZIPUR:  Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members arrested two suspected terrorists after trading fire with them at Tongi Bazar on Friday night.

According to a press release, signed by senior Assistant Director of RAB- 1, on Saturday, acting on information that a gang of gunrunners would stay in Hotel Maya at Tongi Bazar for selling firearms, a team of RAB checked in the hotel in the guise of buyers .

Sensing the presence of the elite force, the “terrorists opened fire on them and retreated at about 9:30pm”.

In retaliation Rab persons also fired back, leaving two gang members injured.

Bullet-hit Robin, 25, of Noakhali and Sayed Sheikh, 27, of Pirojpur were first admitted to Tongi Hospital and then shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

BDST 1311 HRS AUG 21, 2010