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           May
          18, 2000     
           Chittagong,
          May 17 (UNB) – Three young men were beaten to death and 3 others
          died in separate incidents in the city today. 
           
          
           
          Police
          said a group of young men in two auto-rickshaws came to Halishahar at
          1 am for committing dacoit. The residents in a hot chase caught five
          of them. They were given a mass beating. As a result one died on the
          spot and two others succumbed in the morning after taken to hospital.
          Their identity was not known. 
           
          
           
          Abbas
          Ahmed (33), a prisoner in the district jail, died of cardiac arrest at
          the CMCH at 3 am. He was arrested from Sitakunda last year. Shifted to
          the hospital he died at midnight. 
           
          
           
          Joynal
          Abedin (40) died and his uncle was injured in a landslide at Lalkhan
          Bazar in Kotwali thana at 2 am. 
           
          
           
          In
          another incident Khayer (35) was killed and 4 others were injured when
          a tempo skidded off the road at Jamalkhan near Khastagir Girls High
          School at 9 am. The injured were admitted to the CMCH. 
          
          
            
          
          
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