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July
3, 2000
Sirajganj,
July 2 (UNB) - A UP chairman and Awami League leader was killed in a
deadly attack by assailants five km west of Bangabandhu Bridge
connecting road in broad daylight today.
Police
and locals said Bellal Hossain, 45, was chairman of Saidabad union in
sadar upazila and president of the union unit of the ruling party.
An
eyewitness account of the killing said: “A gang of miscreants
numbering 4-5 waylaid the chairman at about 9:20 am and chopped him to
death with sharp weapons in broad daylight at Mulibari checkpost.”
He
was going to the Deputy Commissioner’s office in the town by a
motorbike for official business when he came under the attack.
“The
assailants lay in waiting on roadside and hit him down from the bike
in a surprise attack as he reached the spot,” says the firsthand
report.
Motives
behind the killing were not immediately known. But it was guessed that
the chairman fell victim of past enmity.
The
body was sent to the Sadar Hospital morgue. A case was filed with
police in this connection.
Another
UNB report adds: A school night guard was stabbed to death by some
miscreants in the town on Saturday night.
The
dead was identified as Jalaluddin, 55, night guard of BL Government
High School.
Police
recovered the body and sent it to the Sadar Hospital for autopsy. A
case was filed with the police in this regard.
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