Faridul Islam alias Killer Farid, 27, son of Khorshed Alam, who had earlier been arrested on Wednesday night, was the second to die in shooting involving the newly formed elite anti-crime force Cheetah.

Police said a joint team of Cheetah and Cobra led by Assistant Commissioner Dr Nazmul Karim Khan of Detective Branch (DB), after a tip-off, raided a residential hotel at BCC Road in Sutrapur and arrested Farid at around 10:45pm on Wednesday.

Farid stands accused in 12 cases including some murder cases filed with Sutrapur and Shyampur Police Stations.

Following leads from him, the same team went to Alamganj Lane in Sutrapur to recover arms and nab his associates, said a police press release.

But as they reached Diganta Majlish Club at Alamganj Lane, around 10 of Farid's associates opened fire on them. The joint force fired at least 33 rounds of bullets in return, said the press release.

At one stage of the shoot-out Farid while trying to escape received several bullets from his men, said the press release.

Inspector Mohammad Salauddin and Sergeant Mizanur Rahman were admitted to Razarbagh Police Lines Hospital.

Sub-Inspector Matiar Rahman of Sutrapur Police Station took Farid to DMCH with at least eight bullets in stomach, chest, armpits, ear and shoulder. The doctors there declared him dead at around 2:00am, it said.

The hospital sources, however, contradicted the statement and said Farid was brought dead there.

The joint forces recovered two revolvers, three bullets and six cartridges the criminals had abandoned on the scene.

Inspector Mojibur Rahman Majumder of Cobra has filed a case with Sutrapur Police Station for assaults on policemen.

Sutrapur police on Thursday sent the body to morgue where Metropolitan Magistrate Syed Mohammad Mujibul Hoque carried out an inquest into the dead.

Farid's mother Samsun Nahar told newsmen that Farid was a factory worker in Thataribazar area. "I heard he was arrested from the area, but could not imagine they would kill him," she said.

After watching the news on television, she rushed to the morgue and identified her son and received the body after autopsy.

Police said Farid was one of the henchmen of infamous Idul, who is accused of killing two cops at Motijheel on June 20.

Earlier on September 25, Bhutto, an associate of Kala Jahangir, died in a similar 'shoot-out' allegedly between gangsters loyal to him and the Cheetah.