At least two AL men were murdered in Kushtia and Pabna districts yesterday.
According to our Kushtia correspondent, a local Awami League activist was hacked to death by some miscreants at Gopalpur village in Mirpur upazila.
Shahidul Islam Shahin, officer-in-charge of Mirpur police station, said 3 to 4 miscreants had entered the house of Mamun Gazi, 35, an activist of Chithlia union unit of the ruling party and son of late Amjad Gazi of the village. He was sleeping at around 2am, when they stabbed him indiscriminately with sharp weapons, leaving him dead on the spot.
In Pabna, a local Awami League leader was hacked to death and another activist was injured by some unidentified miscreants at Haturia Purbapara in Bera.
Tofazzel Hossain, officer-in-charge of Bera police station, said that miscreants had stabbed Md Mosaddek Ali Mukul, 45, secretary of Haturia-Nakalia union unit AL and also the headmaster of Anwara Quader Girls’ High School and son of Shiker Ali and his fellow Hazrat Ali at around 11:30pm when they were returning home riding a motorbike.
Hazrat was rushed to hospital in Sirajganj where doctors on duty declared him dead.