Sub-registrar murdered in Kushtia
Unidentified criminals stabbed and then strangled the sub-registrar of Kushtia Sadar upazila at his rented flat in the district town's Arupara area on Monday night.
The dead is Nur Mohammad, 51, of Kurigram. He had been living alone at the flat on the fourth floor of a building in Arupara area for the last six months.
“Nur was stabbed under his armpits before being strangled,” Taposh Kumar Pal, resident medical officer at Kushtia General Hospital, told The Daily Star.
He was rushed to the hospital where doctors pronounced him dead around 10:00pm.
The victim's landlord, Al Mahmud Sohag, said he heard a groaning sound moments before he saw three young men, aged between 25 and 30, coming down the stairs around 9:30pm on Monday.
“Going upstairs, I found the door of his flat open. As I stepped in, I saw Nur Mohammad lying in a pool of blood with his hands, feet and mouth tied up,” he added.
Officer-in-Charge Nasir Uddin of Kushtia Model Police Station said Nur owned an under-construction four-storey building in the town's Chourhas area.
His wife and two sons, who live in Dhaka, went to Kushtia yesterday and took his body to Kurigram.
In the morning, police collected CCTV camera footage from a nearby building.
SM Tanvir Ahmed, superintendent of Kushtia police, said three men wearing caps, T-shirts and jeans were seen getting out of the building around the time Nur was killed.
OC Nasir said police would soon arrest the killers who had been “almost identified”.
Nur's brother Kamruzzaman filed a murder case with Kushtia Model Police Station yesterday.
MINISTER CONDEMNS KILLING
Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday condemned the killing of the sub-registrar, according to a press release of the ministry.
The killers would be arrested soon and put on trial, the minister added.
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