Police shot dead four armed left-wing extremists after they killed a village chief in western Bangladesh, newspapers reported Monday.
A group of armed men stormed the office of Khaiber Ali Biswas, 45, chairman of a council of villages in Kushtia district, and shot him dead on Sunday, the Daily Star and other newspapers reported.
Four of the gunmen, suspected to be members of a banned left-wing extremist group, were killed in a gunbattle with police, they said.
One wounded extremist was arrested and several weapons seized.
The violence occurred in a remote area some 150 kilometers (93 miles) from Dhaka, on Kushtia's border with Jhenaidah district.
A number of left-wing extremist movements were active in the area until they were outlawed following Bangladesh's independence in 1971.
In September in nearby Pabna district, four people, including a police official, were killed and 18 policemen injured in a gunbattle with members of an extreme left-wing group after police raided their hideout -- DHAKA (AFP)
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