JCD leader shot dead in Narsingdi clash

A leader of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal was shot dead during a clash between two groups of the pro-BNP student body in Narsingdi town yesterday afternoon.

Deceased Sadekur Rahman, 32, was a former senior joint convener of District Chhatra Dal's convening committee.

Sadekur was declared dead at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 7:30pm after he was taken there with bullet injuries, inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of the DMCH police camp, told The Daily Star.

JCD leader Ashraful Islam, 20, who was also shot during the clash, is under treatment at the same hospital, the inspector added.

Local JCD leaders said on January 26, the central JCD formed a five-member convening committee for the district.

Since then, JCD leaders and activists, who were did not get posts in the committee, have been demanding cancellation of the committee. They were protesting near the district BNP office in Chinishpur yesterday afternoon, said the district's former senior BNP vice-president Mainuddin Bhuiyan, adding that the leaders and activists of the other group then attacked the protesters.