‘Drug peddler’ killed in Meherpur ‘gunfight’

A suspected drug peddler was killed in what police claimed a gunfight in Gangni upazila of Meherpur early today. The deceased was identified as Nazmul Hossain, 27, hailing from the same upazila, our Kushtia correspondent reports quoting Officer-in-Charge of Detective Branch of Meherpur Police Obaidur Rahman. Nazmul was an accused in five cases, of which, four were drug related while another was filed for his involvement in a recent attack on the members of Border Guard Bangladesh, the OC said.