Members of Rapid Action Battalions (RAB) have detained six members of a teen gang named ‘Ratan Group’ over the killing of a teenage boy in Cumilla city.
A team of RAB-11 detained the teenage boys after conducting drives at Debidwar and Sadar upazilas on Saturday night, said Md Sakib Hossain, commander of Crime Prevention Company-2 of the battalion, at a press briefing on Sunday.
The detainees were handed over to Kotwali Model police station, the officer added.
On Friday afternoon, Ratan Group members hacked Shahadat Hossain, a member of teen gang ‘Eagle Group’, indiscriminately in front of Our Lady of Fatima Girls High School in Cumilla city following a previous dispute, leaving him seriously injured.
Later, he was rushed to a local hospital where doctors declared him dead on arrival.
Police arrested 12 more people in connection with the killing.
