A Rohingya woman and two other suspected drug peddlers were killed in ‘gunfights’ with police and Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Teknaf area of Cox’s Bazar yesterday. The deceased were identified as Romana Akhter, 22, hailing from No 6 camp of block C in Teknaf's Leda Rohingya camp, Mahamudur Rahman, 28, son of Miah Hossain, resident of Ali Akbar Para, and Mohammad Ashraf, 25, son of Nurul Islam, a resident of Noyapara.

The female Rohingya drug trader was killed in an alleged gunfight with BGB troopers in Teknaf upazila. BGB said one of their patrols ordered a boat to stop in Omarkhali Point of Naf River around 4am. "Drug traders, hiding on the boat, first fired shots at the BGB team," said Shariful Islam Jammadder, acting commander of Teknaf BGB-2. "When our team

approached the boat, the drug traders attacked them with sharp weapons, forcing our men to fire back in self-defence,” he said. The acting commander claimed the drug traders fled the scene after the skirmish. “The body of the female drug trader, 10,000 yaba pills and two sharp weapons were recovered from the boat after the gunfight,” Shariful added. Meanwhile, two suspected drug traders were killed in a reported gunfight with police at Moulvibazar in Teknaf.

Six LGs, bullets and 10,000 Yaba pills were also seized from the spot, said Pradip Kumar Das, the officer-in-charge of Teknaf Police Station.