AL-backed UP chairman murdered in Bagmara
Staff Correspondent, Rajshahi
A union council chairman belonging to Awami League was murdered by unidentified assailants at Jalpaitala in Bagmara upazila last night, said the police and witnesses. The victim was Jahangir Alam, 38, Goalkandi union chairman and the upazila Awami League executive committee member. The killer gang numbering about 10 called Jahangir out from a club at Jalpaitala intersection and fired four bullets on his head and chest at around 7:30pm. Awami League leader and former minister Sardar Amjad Hossain told reporters that hired goons of BNP-Jamaat or cadres of militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahidin, Bangladesh (JMB) might have link in the gruesome murder. The police refrained from making any comment on the murder, but said, they have already arrested one person fleeing from the scene with help of villagers. Jagrata Muslim Janata, Bangladesh commander Siddikul Islam Bangla Bhai, who launched anti-outlaw operations in 2004, forced Jahangir on gunpoint to hold some meetings at his house. Bangla Bhai met several times with journalists at Jahangir's house.
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