Chuadanga BNP leader murdered

Unidentified criminals stabbed a local BNP leader to death at Jagannathpur village in Alamdanga upazila of Chuadanga yesterday.

The deceased, Shawkat Ali Farazi, 42, was president of ward no 6 of Kalidaspur union unit of BNP.

Quoting witnesses, Officer-in-Charge Akram Hossain of Alamdanga Police Station said four to six criminals attacked Shawkat when he went to visit his maize field around 1:30pm and stabbed him with sharp weapons, leaving him dead on the spot.