Two top leaders of the Lal Pataka faction of the Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP),
identified as chief adviser
Kamrul
Islam alias Kamrul
Master and operations commander
Md Abdul Latif alias Jhunu Maker were killed in a shootout between Rapid Action
Battalion (RAB) personnel and
PBCP cadres at Tebunia
in the Pabna district on July 14. Two pipe-guns and three bullets
were recovered from the encounter
site.
Separately, suspected PBCP-Marxist-Leninist
cadres killed two Jubo
Dal activists at Khalishakundi in
Daulatpur
sub-district on July 13. Police
said an armed gang of PBCP cadres
intercepted the Jubo
Dal while they were returning home in the area in a rickshaw
van from Khalishakundi
market. The gang took them to
a nearby field and shot them
point blank. | 
