A gang of armed men shot three persons to death in Pushpopara Bazar under Ataikula upazila in the district yesterday evening.
The dead were identified as Sultan Mahmud, Fazlur Rahman and Shamim.
Akram Hossain, officer-in-charge of Ataikula police station, told the Dhaka Tribune that the gang stabbed the three indiscriminately and shot them afterwards around 8:45pm leaving them dead on the spot.
Rashed Ali Masum, organising secretary of Pabna Sadar upazila Awami League, claimed that the three individuals were ruling party activists.
However, the OC could not confirm the political identity of the victims.
In another incident, a schoolboy was stabbed to death last night in the city’s Rayerbag area.
The deceased was identified as Shafique, 16. He was a student of grade 9 in Iznagar High School in the area.
The victim’s friend Akash said centring an old feud, Afzal and Rakib hit Shafique in the left side of his chest with a knife.
Later, Akash and some of his friends rescued Shafique from the road in Miraznagar madrassa area in Rayerbag, and took him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the on-duty doctors declared him dead.
In Madaripur, a gang of criminals shot and slaughtered two individuals including a madrassa teacher in Tekerhat under the district yesterday night.
Of the two, one was identified as Maulana Abul Basar, 50, assistant professor of an Alia Madrassa while the identity of another deceased could not be discovered.
Officer-in-Charge Moniruzzaman of Rajoir police station confirmed the matter to banglanews.
The law enforcers recovered a pipe gun, machetes from the spot.