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| Pir’s disciple slaughtered in Rajshahi |
| 2016-05-08 |
| [Dhaka Tribune] An elderly follower of a Pir or Muslim preacher has been slaughtered in a mango grove at Tanor upazila in Rajshahi. The victim, Mohammad Shahidullah, 55, is the son of late Habibur Rahman of Mohanandakhali area of Nouhata under Poba Upazila. He was a follower of Pir Imam Mahdi from Goalanda in Rajbari district. He was found slit throat in a mango orchard owned by homoeopathic doctor Abul Hasan in Jhumarpara village of Tanor on Friday evening. Police recovered the body on information and sent it to Rajshahi Medical College for post-mortem examination. Victim’s son Russel Ahmed filed a case with Tanor police yesterday morning. He mentioned that his father had land-related conflict with Shajahan and Piar Ali of Nouhata for the last one decade. Tanor police OC Abdur Razzaq told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday that they were trying to find the motive of the murder and had already started drives to arrest the culprits. "The victim was hit by a sharp weapon in the throat," Razzaq said, adding that there was no involvement of snuffies in the attack. On January 9, Rajshahi College political science student Dablu Hembron was slaughtered at his house at Mondumala Moyenpur village of Tanore. He went home after completing master’s examination. Police are yet to solve the mystery. Since last year around 30 people including Hindu and Christian preachers, Pirs and their followers, teachers, secularists and war crimes trial activists have been killed in attacks by machete-wielding snuffies in Dhaka and elsewhere. Rajshahi University teacher Prof AFM Rezaul Karim Siddique was hacked to death near his house in the city's Shalbagan area on April 23. |
| Posted by:Fred |