News in Brief

Interpol's training for police sought
Staff Correspondent

Bangladesh is interested in working together with the police of different countries to prevent all sort of crimes including transnational and cyber ones, State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal told the Interpol's 83rd annual general meeting in Monaco of France on Tuesday.
Addressing a ministerial meeting, Kamal, who is leading a police delegation, also sought help from the Interpol to train up Bangladeshi police with modern techniques.
Over 1,000 officials from different Interpol member countries are attending the five-day annual programme that will conclude tomorrow.

1 jailed for selling drugs for doping
Staff Correspondent

A mobile court of Rapid Action Battalion gave a member of a gang that dopes people one year's jail after Rab had arrested him red handed while he was selling banned drug “Ativan 2mg” at the capital's Meradia Modhyapara yesterday.
Executive Magistrate AHM Anwar Pasha convicted Md Rohan Ahmed Shamim, 26, of Ruposhipara in Jamalpur.
Rohan confessed to involving in the business of the Indian drug which can make people unconscious, says a press release.

Youth's beheaded body recovered
Our Correspondent, Savar

Police recovered the beheaded body of an unidentified youth from Ghoshbag area beside Dhaka-Tangail highway in Ashulia, on the outskirts of the capital yesterday.
The youth, aged around 25 and wearing black t-shirt and jeans, might have been killed elsewhere at night and dumped here, said police. However, police could not find his severed head.
The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for an autopsy.

Man killed by miscreants in Tongi
Our Correspondent, Gazipur

A man was killed as he was trying to rescue his relative from beating by miscreants, in Purba Arichpur area of Tongi on Tuesday.
Police said one Jashim Uddin with five to six men went to the hotel of Youns Ali, 55, and demanded money from Sozun, a relative of Younus, which they lent a few days ago.
Failing to get money they started beating Sozun. When Younus and his son came to his rescue they also beat them up.
Locals rescued them and rushed them to Tongi Government Hospital where doctors declared Younus dead. Police arrested two men for their alleged involvement with the incident.

Three injured in crude bomb attacks
Staff Correspondent        

Three persons were injured in crude bomb attacks by miscreants following a feud over a sale of a house in the capital's Jurain yesterday.
Sumon Sardar, 42, Emon, 18, and Rifat, 13, are undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Police said some eight persons, led by one Shukkur, exploded some crude bombs before Sumon's house on Commissioner's Road where the three were having a chat. An argument occurred a few days ago over the price of the house that Shukkur wanted to buy from Ataur, whom Sumon works for, said police.