Another accused found dead

Yet another accused in the case for the attack on Awami League lawmaker Asaduzzaman Noor has been found dead.
The body of Mohidul Islam, 26, son of Munshi Anwar Hossain in sadar upazila of Nilphamari, was found beside a road at Mokamtola in Bogra on February 1. However, his identity could be confirmed only yesterday, more than a month later.
His body bore several injury marks, Sub-inspector Mostafizur Rahman of Nilphamari Sadar Police Station who is investigating the case told The Daily Star yesterday.

Mohidul, who was a postgraduate student of Persian Studies department at Rajshahi University and an activist of Chhatra Shibir, was No.9 accused in the case filed for the December 14 attack that left five people killed and 100 others injured, including policemen, Mostafizur said.
Jamaat-Shibir activists attacked the convoy of Noor, now the cultural affairs minister, while he was returning to Nilphamari town after visiting Laxmichap, Sheeshatoli and Palash Bari villages where Jamaat men two days before had torched some 80 shops and warehouses of Hindus and AL activists, protesting war criminal Abdul Quader Mollah's execution.
Police on the very night sued 15 named and 1,000 unnamed people in this connection.
On Tuesday morning, Bogra police sent to their Nilphamari sadar colleagues a photo of a body they had found on February 1 and had handed over to Anjuman Mofidul Islam for burial.
When police showed the photo in Tupamari union, locals identified the deceased as Mohidul.
Police learnt that Mohidul, along with his cousin Atiqur Rahman, 30, another accused in the case, had taken shelter at a relative's house in Tangail hours after the attack on Noor's convoy.
Atiq's mother said she heard on January 14 that some people, identifying themselves as members of Detective Branch of police, had picked up both Mohidul and Atiq.
Later on January 20, Atiq's body was found at Syedpur bypass in Nilphamari but Mohidul remained traceless.
On January 18, Golam Rabbani, the prime accused in the case, was found dead in a ditch at Arazi Itakhola village in Nilphamari sadar upazila.