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2 transgender people among 3 sustain bullet injuries in Savar attack
Savar, Sept 17 (UNB) –Two transgender people and a private car driver sustained bullet injuries in an attack in Moragang area of Ashulia on Monday noon.
Motorcyclist killed in Gopalganj road crash
Gopalganj, Sept 17 (UNB) – A motorcyclist was killed and 20 other people were injured as a bus hit a motorcycle in Dhopabhita area of Muksudpur upazila on Monday morning.
Ctg schoolgirl’s decomposed body found 2 days after she goes missing
Chattogram, Sept 17 (UNB) – Police recovered the decomposed body of a schoolgirl in Hathazari thana of the city on Sunday night, two days after she went missing.
The deceased was identified as Tasnim Sultana Tuhin, 13, daughter of Abu Tayeb of ‘Salam Mansion’ in Shahjalal Para, and a Class-VIII student of Hathazati Girls High School and College.
Meanwhile, police arrested a drug addict, Shahnewaz Munna, 28, son of Shahjahan Siraj, a resident of the same building where Tasnim’s family lives, in connection with the murder, said Belal Uddin Jahangir, officer-in-charge of Hathazari Police Station.
Tuhin’s elder brother said their parents went to Saudi Arabia to perform hajj and they are still there. He said his sister went missing while she was going up the 1st floor of the building to her home tutor from their ground floor flat.
Later, family members filed a GD with Hathazari Model thana.
On suspicion, police detained Munna and interrogated him several times. As they failed to collect any information from Munna, they later released him.
The suspicion grew further as police came to know that Munna’s parents were not there in their flat on Friday. Later, police interrogated Munna’s parents, but they did not give any information.
As bad smell started spreading around from Munna’s house at night, locals informed the police.
Later, police recovered the body from his flat around 9:30pm.
Police and victim’s family members suspected that Munna killed Tasnim after having failed to violate her.
Hearing the body recovery of the girl, hundreds of people gathered in front of the building and staged demonstration there demanding punishment of Tasnim’s killer.
Minor murdered after rape in Kushtia
Kushtia, Sep 16 (UNB) – A minor girl was killed after being raped by unidentified miscreant at Mitonkhasimara area in Mirpur Upazila in the district.
The victim was identified as Sabia, 6, daughter of a day laborer of the area.
Locals said that the girl went missing on September 14 evening. The next day her body was found in a ditch beside paddy fields in Mitonkhasimara.
OC of Mirpur Police Station Rafikul Islam said they detained a man after a case was filed over the matter.
18 accused over the killing of Chattogram Jubo Dal activist
Chattogram, Sept 16 (UNB) – 18 people have been accused over the December 2017
killing of a Jubo Dal activist who was stabbed and shot by ruling party activists coming from an AL procession at Kadamtali area under Sadarghat Police Station.
Eight shibir activists held in Cumilla
Cumilla, Sept 16(UNB)- Police here on Saturday night arrested eight activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir along with president of its Cumilla district unit in a drive from Cumilla Medical College Hospital dormitory.
Khulna city BCL leader held with yaba
Khulna, Sept 16 (UNB) –Police detained a city unit leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) - student front of the ruling Awami League - in possession of banned drug yaba from Baikali Palpara area in the city on Saturday night.
The detainee was identified as Helal, Information and Technology affairs Secretary of Khulna City Unit BCL.
Officer-in-charge of Khalishpur Police Station Mosharrof Hossain said law enforcers arrested Helal with 50 pieces of yaba on him around 8pm.
Helal was presented before the court on Sunday, the OC added.
Helal was accused of selling yaba in Khulna city and spreading the contraband tablets to the students of colleges and universities in the city through his accomplices.
A recommendation circular signed by BCL city unit President and General Secretary has been sent to the central BCL for cancelling Helal’s membership from BCL.
Man shot dead in Pabna
Pabna, Sept 16 (UNB) –An Union Parishad member’s son was shot dead at Niamatpur village in Atghoria upazila on Sunday evening.
The deceased was identified as Ilbaz Hossain,45, son of UP member Esem of the area.
Witness Abdul Matin of the village said a group of armed miscreants attacked Ilbaz at an open field near Niamatpur graveyard in the evening, firing multiple gunshots that left him dead on the spot. The killers soon fled the scene.
Officer-in-Charge of Atghoria Police Station Anwar Hossain confirmed the incident. No-one has been identified as a suspect yet, although word in the remote rural community suggests Ilbaz had his rivals, who could and would resort to such action.
Padma dredging begins Monday to save Naria from fierce erosion
Shariatpur, Sep 16 (UNB) – The dredging of river Padma to prevent the scourge of riverbank erosion that rendered 5000 families homeless in the district will begin from Monday.
2 ‘JMB men’ held in Rangpur, Lalmonirhat
Rangpur, Sept 16 (UNB) - Members of Rapid Action Battalion in separate drives on Saturday night arrested two suspected members of militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in Rangpur and Lalmonirhat.