Three people including a minor child were found dead in separate incidents in three districts - Rajshahi, Feni and Chattogram, on Thursday and Friday.
RAJSHAHI: Police recovered the floating body of a night guard from a pond in Paba Upazila of the district on Friday morning.
The deceased was identified as Md Ibrahim, 80, a resident of Bamanshikar Purapukur Village under Parila Union in the upazila.
Police sources said that Ibrahim was night guard of a pond in the area. On Friday morning, locals spotted his body floating in the pond and informed the matter to police.
Being informed, police recovered the body and sent it to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital morgue for an autopsy. The body bore several injury marks.
Police suspected that some thieves might have killed the night guard while trying to steal fish from the pond at night.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Matihar Police Station (PS) Abdul Maleq confirmed the incident, adding that the law enforcers are investigating the matter and trying to detain those involved in the killing.
FENI: Police recovered the body of a boy, who went missing four days back, from an abandoned ditch on Thursday.
His body was recovered from Dewanganj area under Feni Municipality in the afternoon.
Deceased Ahnaf was the son of Main Uddin of Academy area in the town. He was a fourth grader at the local Grammar School.
It was known that Ahnaf along with his classmates went for private tuition on the Atikul Alam road in the town on December 8, but did not return. After that, an unknown caller demanded Tk 12 lakh to Main Uddin as ransom for his abducted son.
In this regard, Main Uddin lodged a case with Feni Model PS accusing some unknown people. Following this, police arrested a person, and according to his information, the law enforcers then recovered the body of Ahnaf from an abandoned ditch.
Superintend of Police in Feni Md Habibur Rahman confirmed the incident in a press briefing at his office.
However, police, so far, arrested three people in this connection.
They are: Ashraf Hossain Tushar, 20, Md Mobarak Hossain Wasim, 21, and Omar Faruq Rifat, 20.
The body of deceased Ahnaf was sent to Feni Sadar Hospital morgue for an autopsy, said Feni Model PS OC Mormo Sinha Tripura.
CHATTOGRAM: Police have recovered the body of an airline employee, who was reportedly abducted by some miscreants on Wednesday, from Patenga link road area of the district on Thursday.
The deceased was identified as Osman Sikder, an office assistant of Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) at Chattogram Shah Amanat International Airport.
Deputy Commissioner (Crime) of Chattogram Metropolitan of Police (CMP) Roish Uddin said that the body bore several injuries marks and after recovering the body on Thursday morning, police sent it to the morgue of Chattogram Medical College Hospital for an autopsy.
Emran Sikder, younger brother of the deceased and general secretary of Hathazari Upazila Hefazat-e-Islam, alleged that a group of miscreants abducted Osman from his residence at around 3 am on Wednesday. He said that Osman was killed due to a previous enmity.
However, the law enforcers are investigating the matter and filing of a murder case is underway in this connection, the CMP official added.
She still feels her brother's existence. Tohfa said, "I cannot think that he is no more and he will never come to us."
Talking to BSS over the phone on Saturday, Abdul Hai Al Hadi said his son Zulker Nayeen was involved with the Anti-Discrimination Student Movement since its very beginning.
After hearing the news, Hadi said, "We went to Enam Hospital but couldn't find our son alive. First, we took him to our rented house, and after that we took him to our village home at Sathia that night.
We buried the body the following morning".
"AL people responsible for mass killing, including those who ordered the police to kill people, must be identified and brought to justice," Hadi, a homeopathy practitioner, said.
"We have no political identity. My son has made supreme sacrifices for the country. Those, who have supremely sacrificed for the country, should be given martyrdom dignity," Hadi opined.
"My son's supreme sacrifice will be justified when we see an ideal and discrimination-free Bangladesh," he added. —BSS
