18 sued over Laxmipur double murder
Eighteen people have been sued on charge of killing two Awami League activists in Laxmipur Sadar upazila early Friday.
Abdullah Al Mamun Bhuiyan, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said Morshed Alam, brother of slain Ismail Hossain Manik, filed the case with the police station on Friday night, accusing 10 named and eight unnamed people.
Police yesterday arrested Mohammad Belal, 32, one of the named accused, from North Mojupur village in the upazila.
Ismail Hossain Manik, 35, son of late Sekendar Hossain of Bangakha village, and Kamrul Islam, 28, son of Shamsul Karim of the same village, were hacked and shot dead by a gang at Rajibpur village in the upazila.
They were active activists of Awami League, said Belayet Hossain, president of Bangakha union unit of the party.
Quoting the victim families, police said Ismail and Kamrul received phone calls and
went out of their houses around 11:30pm on Thursday. They had been missing since then.
Their bodies were found in a field at Rajibpur village Friday morning. On information, police recovered the bodies and sent them to Laxmipur Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsies.
Police said they suspected that Manik and Kamrul had been killed over an internal feud of a gang of drug peddlers. The victims were accused in several criminal cases, including for drug peddling and robbery, they added.
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