Police find bullet-ridden body of drug supect in Cox's Bazar

Police have recovered the bullet-riddled body of a man wanted in a series of drug-related cases in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf Upazila.

The dead was identified as the 42-year-old Shahab Uddin.

Teknaf Police OC Pradip Kumar Das said, "A gunfight broke out between two rival gangs of drug peddlers in a rice field over the distribution of yaba tablets early on Saturday morning. Police subsequently went to the spot and fired blank shots."

"A man with bullet-wounds was recovered from the scene once the shooting stopped."

He was initially rushed to the Teknaf Upazila Health Complex before being taken to the Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital.

But he died on the way to the hospital, said Shahin Md Abdur Rahman, resident medical officer at Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital.

Shahab Uddin was a 'lister drug dealer', according to OC Pradip. He was implicated in at least four cases with Teknaf Police.

Police recovered 24,000 methamphetamine-based yaba tablets, two guns and seven bullets from the scene.

The body has been kept at Cox's Bazar Sadar Hospital's morgue for an autopsy.