UP chairman found dead

The chairman of Kazihal Union Parishad was found dead in Phulbari upazila of the district yesterday.

The dead is chairman Nureba Begum, 42, wife of Md Manik of Rambhadrapur village, and an assistant teacher of Rambhadrapur Government Primary School in the upazila.

Locals found the body hanging from a tree at a litchi orchard near the victim's house in the morning and informed police.

The law enforcers rushed to the spot, recovered the body and sent it to Dinajpur Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy, said police.

The reason behind the death could not be known immediately, they said.