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One killed in pirate firing

1 June 2009, 18:00 PM

NATIONAL

Staff Correspondent, Khulna

One person was killed and another was injured yesterday at Marabhola forest camp under Sharonkhola upazila of Bagerhat district when two rival groups of pirates traded fire for over half an hour near the camp. The dead was Afsaruddin,54, a boatman of Sundarbans Forest Division while the other person is a forest guard.