Criminal charges filed after Bangladesh-Dubai plane hijack bid
This photograph released Monday by Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion shows Mohammed Polash Ahmed who was arrested in 2012 by RAB in a kidnapping case. The man who was killed while trying to hijack a commercial flight in Bangladesh was a 24-year-old passenger from a village near the capital who may not have been armed, officials said, in a reversal of previous allegations that he was carrying a pistol.
The 24-year-old man, identified by officials as Mohammed Polash Ahmed, was killed by military commandos after the plane made an emergency landing in Chittagong. The complainant, Debabrata Sarker, a technical assistant at Hazrat Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong, also said Ahmed exploded "two cracker-like objects" inside the plane, creating panic among the passengers and crew.
Officials said Sunday that Ahmed was injured in an exchange of gunfire with special forces, and that he had shot at them first and was armed with a pistol. Some passengers also said they heard gunshot sounds inside the plane. On Tuesday, Ahmed was buried in his village outside Dhaka. His father said Ahmed was married to an actress but was divorced a few months ago.
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