‘Drug dealer’ killed in ‘shootout’

A suspected drug peddler was killed in a “gunfight” with the Detective Branch of police in Meherpur early yesterday. Obaidur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Meherpur DB, said one of their teams raided Gangni upazila’s Karamdi village around 3:30am on information that a gang of drug peddlers was holding a meeting there.