A union parishad chairman was gunned down in Tangail while two young men were killed in Mymensingh and Madaripur yesterday.
Our Tangail correspondent reports: Rafiqul Islam Faruk, 47, chairman of Dhaynna union parishad was shot dead at Battala Bazar in the district headquarters in the morning.
Officer-in-Charge of Tangail model police station Md Nazrul Islam said a group of unidentified miscreants had opened fire on Faruk at Battala Bazar around 7am, leaving him dead on the spot.
The body of Faruk, who was also vice-president of Tangail sadar upazila unit and executive member of the district unit BNP was sent to the Tangail General Hospital morgue for post-mortem examination. No case was filed in the connection, he added.
Tangail district unit BNP called a half-day hartal for today in the district, protesting the killing.
Meanwhile, police recovered the body of an SSC examinee from village Shibpur in Gouripur upazila in Mymensingh yesterday morning.
Family members said Mustafa Kamal, 16, a student of Char Nilaxmia High School of village Char Nilaxmia under sadar upazila, had gone out of his house with his auto rickshaw. Since then he remained missing.
Md Hamidul Islam, officer-in-charge of Gouripur police station, said miscreants might have killed Kamal after snatching his auto-rickshaw and dumped the body.
In Madaripur, police recovered the body of Tutul Sardar, 25, from Madra area of Madaripur on Thursday afternoon. Tutul had been missing for the last seven days, said Altu Sardar, father of the deceased.
Later, police arrested a man for his alleged involvement with the killing.
A murder case was lodged in this connection.
