Dhaka, June 4 -- Three people were killed in separate incidents of 'gunfights' with the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Gazipur and Chattogram.

Ismail, identified as a drug dealer by police, was killed on Monday night in Gazipur.

"A Rab team was conducting an anti-narcotics raid in the river port area when drug dealers opened fire on it," said Kamal Hossain, the officer-in-charge of Tongi East Police Station.

"Ismail was killed during the gunfight," he said, adding that a smallarm, bullets and several thousand yaba pills were recovered from the spot.

In Chattogram, two suspected robbers were killed in Sitakunda upazila on early Tuesday.

Rab-7 Assistant Director (Media) Masuqur Rahman said one of their teams went to the area to foil a...