 BNP leader slaughtered in Pabna
May 25: Assailants slaughtered a local BNP activist at Chokdarpara village in Sadar upazila on Tuesday night. Police said the assailants, numbering 10/12, waylaid Liakat Ali alias Lekan Sarkar,38, son of Kiamuddin Sardar of Daspara village, on his way home at 11pm. They stabbed Liakat indiscriminately, beheaded his body and took away his head.
| "Bring me the head of Lekan Sarkar!" |
Police recovered the body but the head was yet to be retrieved.
Sitting in someone's refrigerator trophy case. |
Police said rival extremist members might have killed Liakat following previous enmity. A case has been filed with police.
One axed to death by outlaws
May 25: A watchman of Gholdary Agriculture Farm of Darsona Sugar Mills was axed to death by members of the outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party at Hosenpur village under Alamdanga upazila last night. They also injured another watchman Tahazuddin. He was admitted to Chuadanga Hospital. The deceased was identified as Shahidul Islam (45) of village Modhupur in the upazila. According to police, Shahidul Islam, Tahazuddin and Mahatab Uddin were on duty at night, when a group of armed cadres of Purba Banglar Communist Party abducted Shahidul Islam at gun-point. Tahazuddin tried to snatch him from them. So the armed cadres injured him with sharp weapons.
| "Ouch, ouch, hey, that's sharp!" |
Shahidul Islam was taken to Hosenpur village and axed to death there. Police rushed to the spot and recovered the body. Post-mortem of the body was done in Chuadanga Hospital Morgue. A case was filed with Alamdanga Police Station.
Eight injured-Police-villagers clash in Joypurhat
JOYPURHAT, May 25:—Eight persons including six cops and a BNP leader were seriously injured during an attack on police by the villagers, who tried to snatch two persons from their custody at Manjuhar Bazar under Khetlal upazila of the district last night, reports BSS. Police said two youths-Shaheen (26), son of Abdus Sattar of Mundail village, and Robin (27), son of late Babu Chowdhury of Rampura village, mercilessly beat up one Abdul Mazid at his house last night following a long-term enmity over payment of money.
The neighbours caught the duo and confined them into a house. In the meantime, people from the villages of Shaheen and Robin came with lethal weapons to rescue the duo| ."They got Shaheen and Robin! Let's go save them!" |
When police rushed there and rescued the youths, the angry mob attacked them with pelts and lathis.
| "Look out! He's got a lathi!" |
Police on self defense opened 10 rounds fire to disperse the mob. | "Look out men! They've got pelts! Open fire!" |
Joint secretary of Joypurhat district unit of BNP Hamidul Haq along with other 7 persons were injured. Local Member of Parliament AUM Khalilur Rahman visited the area. A case was filed with Khetlal thana in this connection and adequate riot police was deployed to calm down the situation.
3 alleged hijackers killed in mass beating in Chittagong
May 25: Three hijackers were killed in mass beating at Patiya last night. According to police and witnesses, five criminals on a CNG taxi were moving suspiciously on the Patiya-Anowara-Banshkhali (PAB) road at about 10 pm last night. Being suspicious of their movement, the local people of Fazilhat at West Patiya chased the taxi. | "Hummm, that taxi looks suspicious. He's driving around without the meter running!" |
When the criminals tried to flee the local people chased them by a microbus and over took them on PAB road at about 10.30 pm. The people caught three of them and beat indiscriminately. The injured criminals Rajib Kumar Acharya (25), Rinku Kumar (26) and Muhammad Arif (24) were first taken to Patiya Health centre then to the Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) where the doctors declared them dead at about 12 mid night. Another criminal Mizan and the taxi driver Kamrul were handed over to police in injured condition.
"Yeah. They wuz injured when we got 'em!"
"Oooowww! Oooch! Ouch!" |
They have confessed to the police that they belong to a gang of hijackers who used to hijack on the highways with the taxi. They also admitted that they had earlier robbed all belongings of a passenger Mustak Ahmed on Kaptai road on that night. The victim was the principal of East Gozra Madrasha of Raozan. A case was filed with Patiy.
"Youse guys get some sleep! In the morning we'll go out and youse can show us where yer weapons cache is!"
"Yeah! The early morning!" |
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