Two murdered in Meherpur

Criminals killed two persons including an outlawed party cadre in Meherpur district on Sunday night and early yesterday. The dead are Tokirul Islam, 32, son of Khoyer Uddin of Haridah and Joynal Hossain, 30, of Kastdah in Gangni upazila. Of them, Tokirul was a farmer and Joynal was a cadre of outlawed Lal Pataka faction of Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-ML). According to police, farmers located Tokirul's body at a field at Banagari. He was missing since Saturday night. Police suspect criminals abducted Tokirul, strangled him and then dumped the body in the paddy field. In the other incident, rivals called Joynal out of his house at about 3.30:am. They picked him up at gunpoint and slaughtered him at a nearby field. Joynal was a top cadre of Lal Pataka.