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Mother kills children in Dhaka's Hazaribagh before committing suicide
A woman in Dhaka's Hazaribagh committed suicide Thursday after killing her two children, police said.
The bodies of the woman and her children were found at a rented house in the Gadighar area of Rayer Bazar of Hazaribagh around 10pm, Officer-In-charge (OC) of Hazaribagh Police Station Saidul Haque Bhuiyan said.
"We're suspecting that a domestic dispute led to the killing and the suicide. We're currently trying to find out the identities of the deceased and the cause of the death of the children," the OC added.
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Three held for 'killing' mother, son in Sherpur
Police said they detained three people after recovering the bodies of a woman and her son from the septic tank of a rented house in Sherpur on Thursday.
The deceased were identified as 35-year-old nurse Roksana Begum and her 11-year-old son Md Rafid. Police detained Masek Ali, a "drug addict" auto-rickshaw driver, his mother, and another person over the incident.
According to police, Masek used to live with Roksana and Rafid at a rented house in the Nabinagar Panaitapara area of Sherpur town.
Roksana's elder sister Sufia Begum filed a general diary (GD) at Sherpur Sadar Police Station on Wednesday after Roksana and Rafid had gone missing on December 4.
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"We found Masek's involvement in the killing after questioning him. Later, police conducted a search of his house and found the bodies inside the septic tank. We've detained Masek, his mother and another person in connection with the killing."
"We think a dispute between Masek and Roksana over money for buying drugs led to the killing," Md Hannan Mia, additional superintendent of police of Sherpur Circle, said.
Bashir Ahmed Badal, officer-in-charge (OC) of Sherpur Sadar Police Station, said the bodies have been sent to the Sherpur Zila Hospital morgue for autopsies. "Police will file a case over the killing."
UPDF man gunned down in Rangamati
An activist of the United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF) was shot dead allegedly by rivals at Rangipara in Naniarchar upazila of Rangamati district on Wednesday.
The deceased was identified as Subahu Chakma alias Giri, 55, son of Biraj Mohon Chakma of the upazila and assistant director of UPDF.
Quoting local people, Sujon Haldar, officer-in-charge of Naniarchar Police Station, said some members of UPDF opened fire on Giri around 9 am, leaving him dead on the spot.
A team of police has been sent to the spot to investigate the incident, he said.
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The motive behind the killing could not be known immediately.
2 killed as truck hits motorbike in Kushtia
Two people were killed when a truck hit a motorbike on Kushtia-Ishwardi highway at Bahirchar in Bheramara upazila of Kushtia district on Saturday, said police.
The deceased were identified as Sazzad Hossain, 51, son of Ansar Ali and Sharmin Akter, 25, wife of Mohammad Sharif of Sadar upazila.
Debobrata Roy, inspector of Chourhash Highway Police Station, said the accident occurred around 7:30 am when the Kushtia-bound truck hit the motorbike, leaving one killed on the spot and another injured.
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Another injured died on the way to a local hospital.
Police seized the truck but could not arrest its driver.
Twin blasts shake Jerusalem, killing 1 and wounding several
Two blasts went off near bus stops in Jerusalem at the height of morning rush hour on Wednesday, killing one person and injuring at least 18, in what police said were suspected attacks by Palestinians.
The first explosion occurred near a typically crowded bus stop on the edge of the city. The second went off about half an hour later in Ramot, a settlement in the city's north. Police said one person died from their wounds and at least three were seriously wounded in the blasts.
Israeli media said the person killed was a 16-year-old Jewish seminary student.
Tensions between Israelis and Palestinians have been surging for months, amid nightly Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank prompted by a spate of deadly attacks against Israelis that killed 19 people in the spring. There has been an uptick in recent weeks in Palestinian attacks.
The violence occurred hours after Palestinian militants stormed a West Bank hospital and carried out an Israeli citizen seeking treatment there after a car accident, according to the young man's father. That incident could further ratchet up tensions.
The developments took place as former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is holding coalition talks after national elections and is likely to return to power as head of what's expected to be Israel's most right-wing government ever.
Itamar Ben-Gvir, an extremist lawmaker who has called for the death penalty for Palestinian attackers and who is set to become the minister in charge of police under Netanyahu, said the attack meant Israel needed to take a tougher stance on Palestinian violence.
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“We must exact a price from terror,” he said at the scene of the first explosion. “We must return to be in control of Israel, to restore deterrence against terror.”
Police, who were searching for the suspected attackers, said their initial findings showed that shrapnel-laden explosive devices were placed at the two sites. The twin blasts occurred amid the buzz of rush hour traffic and police briefly closed part of a main highway leading out of the city, where the fist explosion went off. Video from shortly after the first blast showed debris strewn along the sidewalk as the wail of ambulances blared. A bus in Ramot was pocked with what looked like shrapnel marks.
“It was a crazy explosion. There is damage everywhere here,” Yosef Haim Gabay, a medic who was at the scene when the first blast occurred, told Israeli Army Radio. “I saw people with wounds bleeding all over the place.”
While Palestinians have carried out stabbings, car rammings and shootings in recent years, bombing attacks have become very rare since the end of a Palestinian uprising nearly two decades ago.
The U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem condemned the violence, as did EU Ambassador to Israel Dimiter Tzantchev.
The Islamic militant Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip and once carried out suicide bombings against Israelis, praised the perpetrators of the attacks, calling it a heroic operation, but stopped short of claiming responsibility.
"The occupation is reaping the price of its crimes and aggression against our people,” Hamas spokesman Abd al-Latif al-Qanua said.
Israel said that in response to the blasts, it was closing two West Bank crossings to Palestinians near the West Bank city of Jenin, a militant stronghold.
In Jenin late Tuesday, militants entered a hospital and removed the Israeli teen wounded in a car accident. The young man, 17, was from Israel's Druze minority. His father, who was in the hospital room with him, said the militants disconnected him from hospital equipment and took him while still alive. The Israeli military said the young man was already dead when he was taken.
“It was something horrendous. It was something that was inhumane," Husam Ferro, the teen's father, told Israeli news site YNet. “He was still alive and they took him in front of my eyes and I couldn’t do anything.”
A Druze community leader told YNet talks were underway on the body's release. Palestinian militants have in the past carried out kidnappings to seek concessions from Israel.
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Palestinian officials either declined to comment or did not respond to requests for comment.
More than 130 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli-Palestinian fighting in the West Bank and east Jerusalem this year, making 2022 the deadliest year since 2006. The Israeli army says most of the Palestinians killed have been militants. But stone-throwing youths protesting the military incursions and others not involved in confrontations have also been killed.
At least eight Israelis have been killed in the most recent wave of Palestinian attacks.
The Israeli military said Wednesday that Palestinian gunmen opened fire on forces escorting worshippers to a flashpoint shrine in the West Bank city of Nablus overnight. The troops fired back and the Palestinian Health Ministry said a 16-year-old was killed in the incident.
Israel captured the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war, along with east Jerusalem and Gaza. The Palestinians seek the territories for their hoped-for independent state.
BGB, BSF agree to cut border killings
Bangladeshi and Indian border guards will patrol vulnerable border points jointly while they will take additional precautionary measures to lower the number of casualties, officials said Thursday.
In a meeting, they also decided to reduce the number of injuries and stop assaulting unarmed citizens.
The decision was taken during a four-day regional border conference between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) that ended in Kolkata on Wednesday.
The frontier conference between the BGB Regional Commanders (Rangpur and Jessore Region) and Frontier Inspector Generals (South Bengal, North Bengal and Guwahati Frontier) of BSF began on November 13.
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Commander of BGB’s North-West region, Rangpur, Brigadier General A B M Nowroj Ehsan had led an 11-member Bangladesh delegation, while BSF South Bengal Frontier Inspector General Dr. Atul Fulzele had led a 12-member Indian delegation in the conference.
During the conference, BSF South Bengal Frontier Inspector General Dr. Atul Fulzele referred to the existing cordial relationship between the two border guarding forces and emphasised on the joint efforts of both forces to implement an effective 'Integrated Border Management Plan (CBMP)'.
Brig Gen Ehsan highlighted the importance of following the Joint India-Bangladesh Guidelines-1975 and effectively implementing the CBMP to resolve the border issues and also cited the role of both the border guarding forces in maintaining peace and order along the border.
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During the conference, both sides agreed that increased joint patrolling by BGB and BSF will prevent smuggling along the border.
They also decided to exchange information between the two forces immediately to take effective action against those involved and apprehended in order to eliminate various types of cross-border crimes, especially smugglings of yaba, phensidyl, various types of drugs, narcotic tablets, gold, arms and cattle.
Fardin wasn’t murdered in Narayanganj’s Chanpara, police say
Additional Commissioner (Detective Branch) of DMP, Mohammad Harunur Rashid, has said that Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) student Fardin Noor Parash was not killed in Narayanganj’s Chanpara.
“We don’t think Fardin was killed in Chanpara. We’re going to analyse CCTV footage,” said Harun.
The police officer said this while talking to journalists on Thursday noon.
Harun informed that Fardin’s last tracked location was in Dhaka’s Jatrabari.
“Fardin went inside a Laguna. He was accompanied by 3-4 men in t-shirts. The laguna went towards Tarabo Bishwa Road in Narayanganj. We’re looking for the driver of the laguna and the people who were accompanying Fardin,” he said.
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Harun added that it would have been impossible for Fardin to reach Chanpara from Jatrabari that night, considering the time he was murdered.
“Fardin left Jatrabari around 2:15am and was killed around 2:30am. It’s not possible to reach Chanpara from Jatrabari within 15 minutes. That’s why we’re suspecting that the murder happened somewhere else,” added Harun.
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Prime accused among 9 held over Bagerhat Swechchasebak Dal leader killing
Nine people including the prime accused in Swechchasebak Dal leader Nure Alam Tanu Bhuiya killing case have been arrested from Indurkani upazila of Pirojpur district on Saturday night.
The arrestees were Farid Sheikh, 28, prime accused and son of Tutul Sheikh, Manir, 26, son of Jamal Mistri, Ratul, 27, son of Ali Akbar, Sirajul, 27, son of Sobhan, Alamin, 30, son of Esmail, Sumon, 26, son of Rustam Ali, Mukul Sheikh, 53, son of Moslem Sheikh, Kabir, 50, son of Sobhan Sheikh and Sohagh, 25 of Bagerhat district town.
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Acting on secret information, a joint team of police, Rab and DB conducted a drive and arrested them at night, said KM Ariful Haque, superintendent of Bagerhat Police while talking at a press briefing on Sunday.
Most of the arrestees confessedto their involvement in the killing, he said.
All of them will be produced before Bagerhat Chief Judicial Magistrate Court with a seven-day remand prayer, he added.
Nure Alam, general secretary of Bagerhat unit Swechchasebak Dal was shot dead following an enmity over establishing supremacy and previous enmity.
Police recovered one pistol, one magazine and one bullet used during the killing from the possession of the arrestees.
Later, a murder case was filed against 17 identified people and 7-8 unidentified people with Bagerhat Model Police early Sunday.
Buet student Fardin might have been killed in Dhaka: DB
Additional Commissioner (Detective Branch) of DMP Mohammad Harunur Rashid has said police are suspecting that Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet) student Fardin Noor Parash was killed somewhere in Dhaka.
Harun said this while replying to a question at a press briefing held at the media center of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) at the capital’s Minto Road on Saturday.
“After analyzing Fardin’s mobile data and talking to the people with whom he had communicated before his death, we’re assuming that he might’ve been killed in Dhaka. We’ve also come to know that he had gone to Narayanganj. We can’t say anything concrete right now for the sake of the investigation,” Harun said.
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Harun said police are not saying that Fardin was killed for drugs.
“We (DB) never said that Fardin had died when he went to buy drugs in Narayanganj’s Chanpara. We haven’t detected yet what actually happened. We’re working on all the information we’ve received till now,” said Harun.
Harun further said that police are yet to confirm whether Amatullah Bushra, the prime accused in the murder case filed by Fardin’s father, was involved in the killing or not.
“We’ve arrested Bushra based on the case filed by Fardin’s father. We’re not saying that she (Bushra) had killed him (Fardin). We’re currently analyzing various information surrounding the case. We’ve taken Bushra into remand to know more about the matter,” Harun said.
Police recovered Fardin’s body from the Shitalakhkhya River, behind a cotton mill at Siddhirganj, on November 7, three days after he went missing.
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On November 8, Sheikh Farhad, a physician at Narayanganj General Hospital where the autopsy was done, said there were several injury marks on Fardin’s head and body.
On Thursday, Fardin’s father Kazi Nuruddin Rana filed the case against his son’s friend Amatullah Bushra, a 3rd year student of East West University, and several unidentified people in connection with the death with Rampura Police Station.
Youth stabbed to death “over playing billiards” in Bogura
A 21-year-old man was stabbed to death, allegedly over playing billiards, at Namajgarh intersection in Bogura district town on Friday night.
The deceased was identified as Habibur Rahman Bipul, son of Saiful Islam of the area.
Sharafat Islam, additional superintendent of police (Sadar Circle), quoting witnesses, said some 6-7 people including Bipul, were playing billiards at an establishment named ‘Break and Run’, located in the area.
At one stage, Bipul engaged in a heated argument with the other playmates as they asked him to stay off the game around 8:45 pm.
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Later, one Shakil, who was in the team, stabbed Bipul with a knife, leaving him injured, the SP said.
Bipul was taken to Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College and Hospital where the doctors declared him dead.
“Police are trying to arrest those involved in the killing,” said Sharafat.