Bangladesh police identify suspect in failed plane hijacking
A man who was killed while trying to hijack a Bangladesh Airlines flight was a 24-year-old passenger from a village near the capital who had been previously arrested in a kidnapping case, officials said Monday. Mufti Mahmud Khan, director of the law and media wing of Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion security agency, said the suspect was listed in its database as Md. Polash Ahmed, and had been arrested in 2012. Confusion remained over whether Ahmed was armed. Officials said Sunday that Ahmed was injured in an exchange of gunfire with special forces, that he had shot at them first. However Civil aviation authorities cast doubt on that account saying the pistol was a toy. <br/>
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Bangladesh police identify suspect in failed plane hijacking
A man who was killed while trying to hijack a Bangladesh Airlines flight was a 24-year-old passenger from a village near the capital who had been previously arrested in a kidnapping case, officials said Monday. Mufti Mahmud Khan, director of the law and media wing of Bangladesh's Rapid Action Battalion security agency, said the suspect was listed in its database as Md. Polash Ahmed, and had been arrested in 2012. Confusion remained over whether Ahmed was armed. Officials said Sunday that Ahmed was injured in an exchange of gunfire with special forces, that he had shot at them first. However Civil aviation authorities cast doubt on that account saying the pistol was a toy. <br/>
