Killings may be accidental, not extrajudicial : Asad

Claiming that there has been no extrajudicial killing in the country, State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman Khan Sunday said a few people might have been accidentally killed in the joint forces' operation launched to hunt down listed criminals, reports UNB.
"No extrajudicial killing has taken place in the country. On many occasions criminals made attacks on law enforcers during their operation launched to arrest criminals. The law enforcers sometimes fired blank shots in the air in self-defence when some might have been victims accidentally," he told the news agency over a phone Sunday.
"But, the government is not carrying out any judicial killing by itself," he added.
Earlier, at a programme held at the Jatiya Press Club in the city, the State Minister rejected the incident of any forced disappearance saying that criminals have gone into hiding fearing the operation carried out by the joint forces.