Indigenous leader killed

Unidentified assailants murdered an indigenous leader in Godagari upazila yesterday.
The deceased, Kartik Kisku, 65, of Joyda Adarpara village, was from Santal community.
Anwar Ali Tuhin, acting OC of Godagari Police Station, said Kartik might have been strangled.
Kartik's family members said he went out of their house Tuesday morning for an arbitration of a social dispute on Gogram Union Parishad premises. The arbitration ended at around 5:00pm but he did not return home, they added.
Locals found Kartik's body on the bank of a canal at Biroil village at around 11:30am yesterday and informed the police who went there, recovered the body and sent it to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.