Chittagong: Two accused in police officials Babul Akhter’s wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu murder case were shot to death during a so called gunfight with police early on Tuesday.

The accused are Mohammad Rashed and Abdun Nabi, residents of Islampur area of Rangunia, said the Rangunia Police Officer-in-charge (OC) Humayun Kabir.

The OC quoting Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) Detective Branch (DB) said two persons were killed during a gunfight in Thandachhari brick kilns area of Rangunia at about 2:30am. Later, police recovered the bodies and sent those to Chittagong Medical College Hospital.

Rashed and Nabi were arrested from Chittagong’s Boyalkhali area on 21 June, said their relatives.

Miscreants shot Superintendent of Police (SP) Babul's wife Mahmuda Khanam to death at GEC intersection of the port city of Chittagong on the morning of 5 June while she went there to drop her son Mahir Akhter, 7, for his school bus.