[Bangla Daily Star] Operatives of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) killed a local BNP leader and his daughter in Mujibnagar upazila of Meherpur yesterday.We seen dis movie!
Of the two, Helal Uddin, joint secretary of Mujibnagar upazila BNP, was hacked indiscriminately, and he died on the spot around 7:00pm.
It had subtitles.
His daughter Kakoli Yasmin Mitu, 22, was fatally hit by shrapnel from three cocktails thrown at her when she went to save her father. She died at Meherpur General Hospital around 11:50pm, Mofazzel Hossain, superintendent of Meherpur police, told The Daily Star around 12:30am today.
"She's dead, Jim!"
In leaflets left on the scene, members of PBCP-Janajuddho faction have claimed responsibility for the murder of Helal, a village doctor by profession, reported our Kushtia correspondent.
"Leaflets at the scene, eh? Le Gume, I suspect Purbo Banglar Communists!"
Around 6:30pm, some 12 Janajuddho cadres stormed Helal's house in Ratanpur village shortly after he returned from Mujibnagar Bazar.
"Father! The Janajuddho cadres are attacking!"
"Bring me my prang, daughter!"
As they tried to get hold of Helal, his daughter Kakoli and wife came to his rescue.
"You shall not harm my father!"
But they stabbed Kakoli in the head.
"O-o-o-o-w!"
At one stage of the tussle, Helal ran out of the house only to be chased down by the attackers.
"Get him!"
Undeterred, his plucky daughter followed the gang but could not go far as they hurled cocktails at her, said Rabiul Islam, officer-in-charge of Mujibnagar Police Station, quoting the victims' family members.
"Ker-BANG!"
"Aaaiiieee! I am undone! Mukhtar, my secret love! Avenge me!"
"We have found a leaflet on the spot where Janajuddho leader Bikash Kumar said they killed Helal for not obeying their orders," said the OC.
"Helal's daughter! Sweet Kakoli! How I loved her! I must have... Dire Revenge™!"
Bikash, who claims to be operations commander of Janajuddho Khulna division, had been demanding hefty sums from Helal for a month. But the BNP leader refused to pay the money.
"Not one taka in tribute!"
The PBCP men had fixed Monday as the last date for him to pay.
"Yez'll pay up by Monday, Helal, or else!"
"Failing to get the money within that time, the outlaws threatened to kill him," Rabiul added.
"It's gonna be curtains for youse!"
Helal neither informed the police of the matter nor lodged any complaint against anybody, the officer said.
"I can't go to the police with this, daughter! If they discover I spent all the money the Chinese loaned the nation for the bridge while we were in power it's four gray walls for me!"
"But, Dad! You'd still be alive! We'd bring you lunch, every day!"
"You're a good girl, Kakoli. I'm glad I've turned away all your suitors and used you as a kitchen drudge! You're such a comfort!"
A special drive was on to arrest the killers.
"Yes! They murdered an innocent girl in the flower of her beauty! Oh, sweet Kakoli! If I wasn't a gangster she'd have been my bride!"
"Dere, dere, Mukhtar! We'll rub dem commies out!"
"[Sniff!] Youse guys are the best bahini ever!"