Keraniganj
Two found dead in Keraniganj:Police
Two people were found dead at two separate places at Rohitpur West Mugarchar and Kolatia Kaskandi village in Keraniganj upazila of Dhaka on Friday.
The deceased were identified as Sharif Uddin,44, son of Zamir Khan of Kaskandi village and Lal Mia, 60, son of Abdur Rashid of Gopalpur Baniatari area of Nageshwari upazila in Kurigram district.
Police said Sharif was found hanging in his house at Kaskandi around 9am on Friday.
He was without a job after recent return from abroad.
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He might have committed suicide out of frustration, said Abu Salam Miah, officer-in-charge (OC) of Keraniganj Model Police Station.
In another incident, police recovered the body of a day laborer from the Dhaleshwari River on Friday morning.
Locals spotted the body floating on the river near Mugarchar area around 10am and informed police.
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On information, police recovered the body, said the OC adding that they are investigating his death.
3 killed in Keraniganj road crash
Three people including two members of a family were killed when a private car crashed into an electric pole in Nawbaganj upazila of Keraniganj early Sunday.
The deceased were identified as private car driver Monir Khan Billal, 54, Abul Kashem, 65, and his granddaughter Farhana, 8.
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The accident occurred around 4am when the private car coming from Shahjalal International Airport area hit a roadside electric pole on Dhaka-Nawabganj-Dohar regional road, leaving six people injured, said Alamgir Hossain, sub-inspector (SI) of Nobabganj police station.
Locals rushed the injured to Upazila Health Complex where doctors declared Abul Kashem and Farhana dead.
Three others were later sent to National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR) where the driver succumbed to his injuries, the SI added.
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The accident occurred when Abul Kashem went to receive his expatriate son-in-law Lavlu along with his family members at the airport in the capital Sunday morning, he added.
17 prisoners, 2 cops injured as bus hits prison van in Keraniganj
A speeding bus lost control and hit a prison van, leaving 17 prisoners and two cops injured in front of Keraniganj Central Jail in Dhaka, police said on Tuesday.
The accident occurred around 7:30 pm on Monday at Rajendrapur on Dhaka-Mawa highway when the van changed its lane to enter the jail premises, said Shahjaman, officer-in-charge of South Keraniganj police station.
The van was transporting 37 old and new prisoners back to the jail after their court appearance in Dhaka city, said Shahjaman.
All the injured were from the prison van, he said.
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Seriously injured prisoners Atikur,22, Atul,24, Munna,25, Murad,40, and Rumi,42, were admitted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, he said.
Besides 12 other prisoners were given primary treatment at the jail hospital while the two cops were taken to Rajarbagh Police Lines Hospital.
The OC did not provide details about what happened to the bus.
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Road accidents claim 7 lives in 3 districts
At least seven people were killed and two injured in three road accidents in Keraniganj, Jashore Sadar, and Dinajpur Friday, according to police.
In Dhaka's Keraniganj, five people were killed and another injured as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw collided with a lorry at Teghoria.
The deceased were identified as CNG driver Tamal, 17, and his passengers Zunayed Hossain, 22, Nayeem Hossain Fahim, 21, and Samad, 20. However, the identity of another deceased could not be ascertained immediately.
The accident occurred when five friends, workers of a factory in the Hasanabad area, were on their way to visit the Padma Bridge on an auto-rickshaw, Mohammad Shah, officer-in-charge of Hasara Police Station, said.
In Jashore Sadar upazila, a 22-year-old assistant of a truck driver was killed after their vehicle fell into a roadside ditch in Shyamnagar. The deceased Munna was from the upazila.
The accident occurred as the driver of the brick-laden truck lost control of his vehicle near, which overturned and pinned Munna underneath, Assistant Sub-Inspector Munir Hossain, in-charge of Sajiali Police Outpost, said.
In Dinajpur, a 32-year-old woman was killed, and her husband injured after a tractor-trolley hit their motorcycle.
The deceased was identified as Shamim Akhter Panna from Kabirajpara, Dinajpur Sadar, Abdul Jalil, sub-inspector of Pulhat Police Outpost, said. "The paddy-laden tractor-trolley crashed into the motorcycle, leaving the woman dead on the spot and her husband injured."
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Missing gold trader found dead after 5 months
Police have recovered the body of a gold trader from Sirajdikhan, Munshiganj five months after he went missing.
Anup Baul, a gold trader in Old Dhaka's Tanti Bazar, was from Teghoria union of South Keraniganj.
Biplob Baul, the younger brother of the deceased, said Anup was owed Tk2 lakh by his business partner Noyon – that at the time of his disappearance he was trying to get back.
In fact, on the day Anup went missing, last January 4, Noyon had told him over the phone that he was ready to pay up, for which he asked to meet in Sirajdikhan. Since then, Anup had been missing.
A general diary was filed at Sirajdikhan Police Station the next day.
Later Biplob lodged a complaint at Dhalpur RAB-10 office in the capital.
Police's Detective Branch (DB) detained Noyon over the incident and questioned him, according to Khorshed Alam, superintendent of police at PBI Dhaka district unit.
Based on Noyon's information, police recovered Anup's body Thursday and sent it to Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy, added the officer.
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Hi-tech park to be developed in Keraniganj
A 15,000 square feet hi-tech park is going to be established in Keraniganj, southern suburb of Dhaka city.
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid laid the foundation stone of the 7-story hi-tech park in Keraniganj.
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Addressing a function on the occasion, he said the hi-tech park will play an important role in creating skilled manpower in the country.
“There is no alternative to create skilled manpower to get the results of the fourth industrial revolution”, he said adding the initiative to create skilled manpower will help face the future challenges.
State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak and Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Vikram K Doraiswami also addressed the function.
It was informed at the function that Tk 200 crore will be invested in the hi-tech park project which will have facilities to provide training to 1000 people per year.
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In addition, some 3000 more people will get the opportunity to be employed directly and indirectly under the project.
Zunaid Ahmed Palak said the government has been implementing a huge number of projects to develop digital Bangladesh.
“Already cent percent of people have access to electricity while 13 crore people are using the internet,” he said.
How the life was sucked out of the Suvadda Canal
Once a safe haven for indigenous fish stocks to breed and a centre of human activity, the Suvadda Canal on the outskirts of the capital in Keraniganj has now been left to die.
The canal, which connects the River Buriganga to the River Dhaleshwari, was a source of drinking water for people of 50 villages of Suvadda, Aganagar, and Teghoria unions and a place for boat races.
Husband admitted to killing actress Shimu: Cops
Actress Raima Islam Shimu’s husband has admitted to killing his wife before a judicial magistrate in Dhaka, a senior police officer said Friday.
Keraniganj Additional superintendent of police Humayun Kabir told the media that Shimu's husband Shakhawat Ali Nobel and his friend SM Farhad made their confessions in the Dhaka Judicial Magistrate's Court Thursday evening under Section 164 of CrPC.
This CrPC section gives power to magistrates to record confessions and statements in a case.
Earlier Nobel told police that he choked the actress to death over a family feud on January 16. Later he called Farhad to help him dump the body elsewhere.
That evening only, the duo went to Mirpur where they couldn’t find a suitable place for dumping. They finally dumped the body in the bushes near Alipur Bridge at Kadamtali in the district's Hazratpur union, Kabir said.
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Both the arrestees, cops said, are drug addicts and unemployed.
Abu Salam Mia, the officer-in-charge of Keraniganj Model Police Station, had said that locals spotted the body near Alipur Bridge at 10am Monday and informed cops.
“The body bore several injury marks. We suspect that she was killed on Sunday and her body was later dumped in the area," the officer had said.
According to Fatema, the younger sister of the actress, “Shimu left her residence around 9am on Sunday and had been missing since. We lodged a missing person's complaint on Sunday night."
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A Dhaka court on Tuesday placed the husband of the 41-year-old actress and Farhad on a three-day police remand in a murder case filed against them by police after recovery of her body in a sack.
Shimu worked with many renowned film directors after making her debut in 1998.
Launch fire: One owner held in Keraniganj
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested Hamjalal Sheikh, one of the owners of launch MV ‘Avijan-10’, in connection with the deadly fire incident in the launch that left 41 people dead and many more injured.
ANM Imran Khan, Assistant Director (ASP) of Legal and Media Wing of Rab, said Hamjalal was held from Keraniganj early Monday.
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His arrest followed Dhaka Marine Court’s warrants for the arrest of four owners and four master drivers of the launch as a case filed by the Department of Shipping.
The accused in the case are four owners of the launch company, ‘Messars Al Araf and Company’, Md Hamjalal Sheikh, Md Shamim Ahmed, Md Rasel Ahmed, and Ferdous Hasan Rabby, in-charge master of Avijan-10 Md Riaz Sikder, in-charge driver Masum Billah, second master Khalilur Rahman, second driver Abul Kalam.
Freedom fighter murdered by three men in Keraniganj
A freedom fighter was allegedly killed by three men after his arbitration went against one of them in the Korergaon area of south Keraniganj.
The victim was identified as Shahidullah, 70, a local resident. Four others also sustained minor injuries in the attack.
According to locals and family members,Shahidullah helped settle a dispute on Sunday but the decision went against one of the accused, Ripon.
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Subsequently, Ripon and his two accomplices attacked the freedom fighter, leaving him seriously injured.
Locals rescued him to Swadesh Hospital in the area. Later, he was shifted to a private hospital as his condition deteriorated where he succumbed to his injuries this morning.
Officer-in-charge of South Keraniganj police station, Abul Kalam Azad said that a murder case would be registered against the trio. "Efforts are on to arrest them."
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