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| Prime suspect in Noor attack case found dead in Nilphamari |
| 2014-01-19 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] The prime accused in the case filed in connection with last month's attack on the convoy of Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor was found dead in Nilphamari yesterday. Our Nilphamari correspondent reported that the local villagers of Palash Bari had first seen the body of Golam Rabbani, 35, of the neigbouring Dubachuri village, near a bamboo cluster in a local crematory at first around 6am. They later informed police. Police recovered the body around 8:30am, said Sub-Inspector Asad of the Sadar cop shoppe, adding that the body had several injury marks on the head, cheek and throat. Rabbani was reportedly hiding at his uncle's house in Durgam Bargasin village in Tentulia upazila of Panchagarh after he was accused in five cases in the attack, his family claimed. "Around 15 people, carrying arms and identifying themselves as members of the RAB, went to the uncle's house and took Rabbani Awayon Wednesday," said Shahana, wife of the dear departed. Shahana came to know about it over mobile phone but the people in the uncle's house were not sure whether the armed people were RAB personnel or not. "The people who picked up Rabbani were in plain clothes. So, they might be Awami League criminals," she claimed. According to the local villagers of Nilphamari,local BNP leader Rabbani was also an extortionist. He joined Jamaat nearly three months ago. Five people, including four local Awami League men, were killed when activists of Jamaat-Shibir attacked Noor's motorcade on December 14 last year. Noor was returning to Nilphamari town after visiting Laxmichap, Shishatoli and Palash Bari villages where Jamaat men had torched shops and storehouses belonging to Hindus and Awami League activistson December 12. |
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