2 gangs' rivalry leads to Badda murders
Staff Correspondent
Vengeance and rivalry between two gangs over domination in the area led to Tuesday's four near-simultaneous murders at South Badda in the capital.The two gangs, known in the area as Alauddin group and Mamun-Leon group, have been engaged in fights after Alauddin killed Mamun's father Lutfar Rahman five years back, locals said. A gang of around 12 of Mamun's group on Tuesday evening hunted down and killed Al Amin alias Alauddin alias Ala, Tajul Islam, Abdul Kader Masum, and Rubel, and injured Jalal Uddin Rumi and Mohammad Kamrul in South Badda. Law enforces arrested Mohsin, Rana and Sohel, and held several others in the area for quizzing in this connection. Investigators have confirmed that the murders took place over enmity between the two groups. Police said at least three of four killed were criminals, who worked as gunmen and were engaged in killing, extortion and drug peddling in the area. Alauddin group that once dominated the area gunned down Mamun's father Lutfar Rahman, a land broker, and then killed two associates of Mamun. In a revenge attack two and a half years ago, Mamun's group sprayed Alauddin with bullets, which made him crippled. Alauddin is accused in at least five cases for murders, attempt to murder, and extortion, said police. As Alauddin's gang became weak, Mamun-Leon group became dominant in the area, said locals. Mamun is also accused in several murder cases including those for killing schoolboy Rifat and a rickshaw-puller. Mamun killed Rifat, a student of class seven of Shaheen School and College, after the latter's father refused to pay toll three years ago. "Mamun group committed the Tuesday's murders to take hold of the area," Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abdul Malek of Badda Police Station said last evening. "We captured two goons of Mamun group, who admitted of carrying out the attacks in which Mamun also took part," the OC said referring to the statement of arrested Sohel. Mamun was arrested in March last year, wherein Alauddin and his gang played a role, said OC Malek. The law enforcers had been raiding different spots to hunt down Mamun but no case was filed in connection with the killings as of last evening, Badda police said.
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