Female UP member hacked dead in Manikganj

Police recovered the body of a female union parishad (UP) member, who was chopped to death, at Jamalpur village in Singair upazila of the district yesterday morning.

Police and family sources said Monoara Begum, 45, wife of Nurul Islam

and mother of two children, was on way home from her niece’s in-laws’ house at Joymontop village around 9pm.

On Sunday morning, locals spotting her body lying beside a road at Jamalpur village in Bayra union informed police.

Sub-inspector Sahidul Islam of Singair police station said Monoara was chopped to death by some miscreants over a land-related dispute.