Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said that her government is trying to find out the culprits of the heinous murder of Italian citizen Cesare Tavella.
She made the statement at a press conference at the Bangladesh UN Permanent Mission in New York on Tuesday evening (NY time), BSS reported.
"A BNP leader who is delivering misguiding statements on the sad murder [of Tavella] will be interrogated," she said.
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Hasina said that some stray incidents always happen not only in Bangladesh but everywhere in the world. "Even in New York City, two Awami League leaders were killed in broad daylight."
The premier also ruled out any chance of earlier election before 2019.
"The next election will be held as per the schedule and according to the constitution. No one should be worried about it," she said.
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Tavella, 51, was shot dead by three unidentified assailants who came on a motorcycle near road number 90 of Gulshan 2 around 6:15pm on Monday. The killers fled the scene towards road 83 after one of them shot Tavella thrice.
He was taken to United Hospital by a car driver, Mohammad Bilal, only to be declared dead by the duty doctors around 7pm.
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Tavella had been working as the project manager of PROOFS (Profitable Opportunities for Food Security) at the Netherlands-based development organisation ICCO Cooperation since May.
ICCO Country Representative Hellen Vander Beek filed a case with Gulshan police station around 10:30pm on Monday. The case was handed over to the Detective Branch (DB) yesterday afternoon.
The murder created much hype in the country as well as hit the headlines in international media apparently due to security alerts issued by the US and the UK for their citizens in Bangladesh, suspecting militant attack on western interests in late September.