At least five people were killed in separate incidents in Pabna, Natore, Jhenaidah and Comilla.
Two employees of Pubali Bank were found dead at a sugarcane field in Sugar mill area in Ishwardi upazila yesterday.
The deceased were identified as Abul Kalam Azad, 35, junior cash officer of Pubali Bank’s Maligacha branch, and a resident of Radhanagar area, and Ameer Hossain, 26, a peon of the bank and son of Muktar Hossain of Tebunia Raninagar village.
Biman Kumar Das, officer-in-charge of Ishwardi Police Station, said, being informed by local people, police recovered the bodies from the sugarcane field at about 10 am and sent those to Pabna Medical College Hospital morgue, reports UNB.
Police said the bodies bore several injury marks and the key of the bank locker and some documents were found near the bodies.
In Natore, a local leader of JCD, the student front of BNP, was shot dead and 15 others were injured in a clash with Awami League activists in Kanaikhali culvert area of the town during the daylong hartal enforced by local BNP in the district protesting the arrest of Ruhul Kuddus Talukdar Dulu yesterday.
The deceased was identified as Saifuzzaman Sujon, 24, joint secretary of the Poura unit of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal.
Witnesses said the clash broke out when local Awami League men obstructed a BNP procession brought out in support of the hartal at about 11am.
At one stage, the rival groups attacked each other and fired several rounds, leaving 15 people injured on both sides.
Critically injured Sujon was rushed to the Baptist Missionary Hospital in the district town, where he died.
Later, police fired several rounds of rubber bullets and released tear gas to bring the situation under control.
In Jhenaidah, police recovered the bullet-hit body of a Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal activist from the Padma River in Goalanda upazila yesterday morning.
The deceased was identified as Saddam Sardar, 24, a second year student of Rajbari Dr Abul Hossain College and son of Siddique Sadar of Daulatdia Bazaar of the upazila.
Saddam was an aspirant for a post in the Goalanda upazila unit of JCD, said Mojammel Haque of Laltu, acting president of Daulatdia union unit of JCD.
Moreover, a local leader of Juba Dal was hacked to death by miscreants in Gauripur area of Daudkandi upazila on Sunday night.
The victim, identified as M Jahangir Sarkar, 35, was general secretary of Hatchandina village unit Juba Dal.
Sources said a gang of unidentified miscreants hacked Jahangir in the area around 9:00pm, leaving him critically injured. Later, he died.
