DHAKA ¨C Bangladesh police arrested Riazul Islam as he was walking home from his in-laws¡¯ house. At 3:15 a.m., he was shot dead in a sandy field beside a set of railroad tracks north of Dhaka.
Police say he was killed in a gunfight with other drug dealers, and they recovered 20 kg of marijuana from the site. His parents say the officers extorted money from them and then killed him.
¡°I knew my son was in police custody. All of a sudden my son was dead. I couldn¡¯t believe it. The police took money and they still killed him,¡± said his mother, Rina Begum.
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